Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations

Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>

From: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
To: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>
Cc: sawada.mshk@gmail.com, andrew@dunslane.net, michael@paquier.xyz, nathandbossart@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-01-26T09:02:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In <CAEG8a3KhS6s1XQgDSvc8vFTb4GkhBmS8TxOoVSDPFX+MPExxxQ@mail.gmail.com>
>   "Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations" on Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:41:50 +0800,
>   Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > CopyToProcessOption()/CopyFromProcessOption() can only handle
> > single option, and store the options in the opaque field,  but it can not
> > check the relation of two options, for example, considering json format,
> > the `header` option can not be handled by these two functions.
> >
> > I want to find a way when the user specifies the header option, customer
> > handler can error out.
>
> Ah, you want to use a built-in option (such as "header")
> value from a custom handler, right? Hmm, it may be better
> that we call CopyToProcessOption()/CopyFromProcessOption()
> for all options including built-in options.
>
Hmm, still I don't think it can handle all cases, since we don't know
the sequence of the options, we need all the options been parsed
before we check the compatibility of the options, or customer
handlers will need complicated logic to resolve that, which might
lead to ugly code :(

>
> Thanks,
> --
> kou



-- 
Regards
Junwang Zhao



Commits

  1. Refactor Copy{From|To}GetRoutine() to use pass-by-reference argument.

  2. Refactor COPY FROM to use format callback functions.

  3. Refactor COPY TO to use format callback functions.

  4. Another try to fix BF failure introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  5. Revert "Refactor CopyReadAttributes{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY FROM"

  6. Improve COPY TO performance when server and client encodings match

  7. Simplify signature of CopyAttributeOutCSV() in copyto.c

  8. Revert "Refactor CopyAttributeOut{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY TO"

  9. Refactor CopyAttributeOut{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY TO

  10. Refactor CopyReadAttributes{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY FROM

  11. Add progress reporting of skipped tuples during COPY FROM.

  12. pgbench: Add \syncpipeline

  13. meson: Make gzip and tar optional

  14. Export the external file reader used in COPY FROM as APIs.