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

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>
Cc: sawada.mshk@gmail.com, zhjwpku@gmail.com, andrew@dunslane.net, nathandbossart@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-01-31T05:39:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 02:11:22PM +0900, Sutou Kouhei wrote:
> Ah, yes. defel->location is used in later patches. For
> example, it's used when a COPY handler for the specified
> FORMAT isn't found.

I see.

> I've prepared the v10 patch set. Could you try this?

Thanks, I'm looking into that now.

> FYI: Here are Copy{From,To}Routine in the v10 patch set. I
> think that only Copy{From,To}OneRow are minimal callbacks
> for the performance gain. But can we keep Copy{From,To}Start
> and Copy{From,To}End for consistency? We can remove a few
> {csv_mode,binary} conditions by Copy{From,To}{Start,End}. It
> doesn't depend on the number of COPY target tuples. So they
> will not affect performance.

I think I'm OK to keep the start/end callbacks.  This makes the code
more consistent as a whole, as well.
--
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.