Hi,

In <CAD21AoAni3cKToPfdShTsc0NmaJOtbJuUb=skyz3udj7hzy...@mail.gmail.com>
  "Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations" on 
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:28:26 -0800,
  Masahiko Sawada <sawada.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the 0001 patch again, I have a question: we have
> CopyToTextLikeOneRow() for both CSV and text format:
> 
> +/* Implementation of the per-row callback for text format */
> +static void
> +CopyToTextOneRow(CopyToState cstate, TupleTableSlot *slot)
> +{
> +       CopyToTextLikeOneRow(cstate, slot, false);
> +}
> +
> +/* Implementation of the per-row callback for CSV format */
> +static void
> +CopyToCSVOneRow(CopyToState cstate, TupleTableSlot *slot)
> +{
> +       CopyToTextLikeOneRow(cstate, slot, true);
> +}
> 
> These two functions pass different is_csv value to that function,
> which is used as follows:
> 
> +                       if (is_csv)
> +                               CopyAttributeOutCSV(cstate, string,
> +
>  cstate->opts.force_quote_flags[attnum - 1]);
> +                       else
> +                               CopyAttributeOutText(cstate, string);
> 
> However, we can know whether the format is CSV or text by checking
> cstate->opts.csv_mode instead of passing is_csv. That way, we can
> directly call CopyToTextLikeOneRow() but not via CopyToCSVOneRow() or
> CopyToTextOneRow(). It would not help performance since we already
> inline CopyToTextLikeOneRow(), but it looks simpler.

This means the following, right?

1. We remove CopyToTextOneRow() and CopyToCSVOneRow()
2. We remove "bool is_csv" parameter from CopyToTextLikeOneRow()
   and use cstate->opts.csv_mode in CopyToTextLikeOneRow()
   instead of is_csv
3. We use CopyToTextLikeOneRow() for
   CopyToRoutineText::CopyToOneRow and
   CopyToRoutineCSV::CopyToOneRow

If we use this approach, we can't remove the following
branch in compile time:

+                       if (is_csv)
+                               CopyAttributeOutCSV(cstate, string,
+                                                                       
cstate->opts.force_quote_flags[attnum - 1]);
+                       else
+                               CopyAttributeOutText(cstate, string);

We can remove the branch in compile time with the current
approach (constant argument + inline).

It may have a negative performance impact because the "if"
is used many times with large data. (That's why we choose
the constant argument + inline approach in this thread.)


Thanks,
-- 
kou


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