Re: pg_dump multi VALUES INSERT

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 7:14 AM David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 01:15, Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > The attache patch use your method mostly
>
> I disagree with the "mostly" part. As far as I can see, you took the
> idea and then made a series of changes to completely break it. For
> bonus points, you put back my comment change to make it incorrect
> again.
>
> Here's what I got after applying your latest patch:
>
> $ pg_dump --table=t --inserts --rows-per-insert=4 postgres
>
> [...]
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (1);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 2);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 3);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 4);
> );
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (5);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 6);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 7);
> )
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (, ( 8);
> );
> INSERT INTO public.t VALUES (9);
> )
> ;
>
> I didn't test, but I'm pretty sure that's not valid INSERT syntax.
>

this happen because i don't disallow the usage of --inserts and
--rows-per-insert
option together.it should be error out in those case.i correct it in
attached patch

> I'd suggest taking my changes and doing the plumbing work to tie the
> rows_per_statement into the command line arg instead of how I left it
> hardcoded as 3.
>
> >> + When using <option>--inserts</option>, this allows the maximum
> number
> >> + of rows per <command>INSERT</command> statement to be
> specified.
> >> + This setting defaults to 1.
> >>
> > i change it too except "This setting defaults to 1" because it doesn't
> have default value.
> > 1 row per statement means --inserts option .
>
> If it does not default to 1 then what happens when the option is not
> specified

if --inserts option specified it use single values insert statement
otherwise
it use COPY command

regards
Surafel