Re: An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend
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Msg-id 200802270909.15336.dfontaine@hi-media.com
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In response to An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
Responses Re: An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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Hi,

Le mercredi 27 février 2008, Florian G. Pflug a écrit :
> Upon reception of a COPY INTO command, a backend would
> .) Fork off a "dealer" and N "worker" processes that take over the
> client connection. The "dealer" distributes lines received from the
> client to the N workes, while the original backend receives them
> as tuples back from the workers.

This looks so much like what pgloader does now (version 2.3.0~dev2, release
candidate) at the client side, when configured for it, that I can't help
answering the mail :)http://pgloader.projects.postgresql.org/dev/pgloader.1.html#_parallel_loading section_threads = N
split_file_reading= False 

Of course, the backends still have to parse the input given by pgloader, which
only pre-processes data. I'm not sure having the client prepare the data some
more (binary format or whatever) is a wise idea, as you mentionned and wrt
Tom's follow-up. But maybe I'm all wrong, so I'm all ears!

Regards,
--
dim

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