Re: pg_dump multi VALUES INSERT

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 22:08, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> Out of abc-order rows-per-inserts option in getopt struct.

I missed that. Thanks. Fixed in attached.

> help string does not specify the expected argument.

Also fixed.

> I still think that the added rows_per_insert field is useless, ISTM That
> "int dump_inserts" can be reused, and you could also drop boolean
> got_rows_per_insert.

I thought about this and looked into it, but I decided it didn't look
like a smart thing to do. The reason is that if --inserts sets
dump_inserts to 1 then --rows-per-insert sets it to something else
that's likely fine, but if that happens in the opposite order then the
--rows-per-insert gets overwritten with 1. The bad news is the order
that happens is defined by the order of the command line args. It
might be possible to make it work by having --inserts set some other
variable, then set dump_inserts to 1 if it's set to 0 and the other
variable is set to >= 1... but that requires another variable, which
is what you want to avoid... I think it's best to have a variable per
argument.

I could get rid of the got_rows_per_insert variable, but it would
require setting the default value for rows_per_insert in the main()
function rather than in InitDumpOptions(). I thought
InitDumpOptions() looked like just the place to do this, so went with
that option. To make it work without got_rows_per_insert,
rows_per_insert would have to be 0 by default and we'd know we saw a
--rows-per-insert command line arg by the fact that rows_per_insert
was non-zero. Would you rather have it that way?

> The feature is not tested anywhere. I still think that there should be a
> test on empty/small/larger-than-rows-per-insert tables, possibly added to
> existing TAP-tests.

I was hoping to get away with not having to do that... mainly because
I've no idea how. Please have at it if you know how it's done.

FWIW I looked at 002_pg_dump.pl and did add a test, but I was unable
to make it pass because I couldn't really figure out how the regex
matching is meant to work. It does not seem to be explained very well
in the comments and I lack patience for Perl.

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