Re: Ought to use heap_multi_insert() for pg_attribute/depend insertions?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:25:07PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Ok, once the final state of this patchset is known I can take a stab at
> recording multiple dependencies with different behaviors as a separate
> patchset.

Thanks. I have applied 0001 and 0002 today, in a reversed order
actually.

> If we do, we need to keep the cap consistent across all callers, else we'll end
> up with an API without an abstraction to make it worth more than saving a few
> lines of quite simple to read code. Currently this is the case, but that might
> not always hold, so not sure it if it's worth it.

I am not sure either, still it looks worth thinking about it.
Attached is a rebased version of the last patch. What this currently
holds is just the switch to heap_multi_insert() for the three catalogs
pg_attribute, pg_depend and pg_shdepend. One point that looks worth
debating about is to how much to cap the data inserted at once. This
uses 64kB for all three, with a number of slots chosen based on the
size of each record, similarly to what we do for COPY.
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Michael