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

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Cc: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>, andrew@dunslane.net, sawada.mshk@gmail.com, zhjwpku@gmail.com, nathandbossart@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-01-25T03:28:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:53:58AM +0800, jian he wrote:
> apply your patch:
> COPY data TO '/dev/null' WITH (FORMAT csv) \watch count=5
> Time: 668.996 ms
> Time: 596.254 ms
> Time: 592.723 ms
> Time: 591.663 ms
> Time: 590.803 ms
> 
> not apply your patch, at git 729439607ad210dbb446e31754e8627d7e3f7dda
> COPY data TO '/dev/null' WITH (FORMAT csv) \watch count=5
> Time: 644.246 ms
> Time: 583.075 ms
> Time: 568.670 ms
> Time: 569.463 ms
> Time: 569.201 ms
> 
> I forgot to test other formats.

There can be some variance in the tests, so you'd better run much more
tests so as you can get a better idea of the mean.  Discarding the N
highest and lowest values also reduces slightly the effects of the
noise you would get across single runs.
--
Michael

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.