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: nathandbossart@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-12-06T14:07:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 3:28 PM Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In <CAEG8a3K9dE2gt3+K+h=DwTqMenR84aeYuYS+cty3SR3LAeDBAQ@mail.gmail.com>
>   "Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations" on Wed, 6 Dec 2023 15:11:34 +0800,
>   Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For the extra curly braces, I mean the following code block in
> > CopyToFormatBinaryStart:
> >
> > + {        <-- I thought this is useless?
> > + /* Generate header for a binary copy */
> > + int32 tmp;
> > +
> > + /* Signature */
> > + CopySendData(cstate, BinarySignature, 11);
> > + /* Flags field */
> > + tmp = 0;
> > + CopySendInt32(cstate, tmp);
> > + /* No header extension */
> > + tmp = 0;
> > + CopySendInt32(cstate, tmp);
> > + }
>
> Oh, I see. I've removed and attach the v3 patch. In general,
> I don't change variable name and so on in this patch. I just
> move codes in this patch. But I also removed the "tmp"
> variable for this case because I think that the name isn't
> suitable for larger scope. (I think that "tmp" is acceptable
> in a small scope like the above code.)
>
> New code:
>
> /* Generate header for a binary copy */
> /* Signature */
> CopySendData(cstate, BinarySignature, 11);
> /* Flags field */
> CopySendInt32(cstate, 0);
> /* No header extension */
> CopySendInt32(cstate, 0);
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> kou

Hi Kou,

I read the thread[1] you posted and I think Andres's suggestion sounds great.

Should we extract both *copy to* and *copy from* for the first step, in that
case we can add the pg_copy_handler catalog smoothly later.

Attached V4 adds 'extract copy from' and it passed the cirrus ci,
please take a look.

I added a hook *copy_from_end* but this might be removed later if not used.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180211211235.5x3jywe5z3lkgcsr%40alap3.anarazel.de
-- 
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.