pgsql: Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/f - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw.

When reading from a text- or CSV-format file in file_fdw, the datatype
input routines can consume a significant fraction of the runtime.
Often, the query does not need all the columns, so we can get a useful
speed boost by skipping I/O conversion for unnecessary columns.

To support this, add a "convert_selectively" option to the core COPY code.
This is undocumented and not accessible from SQL (for now, anyway).

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a36088bcfae85eeeb55e85c3f06c61cb2f0621c6

Modified Files
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contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c |  147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/commands/copy.c |   53 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)