Re: New Table Access Methods for Multi and Single Inserts

On 17-01-2021 00:04, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
>> If we agree on removing heap_multi_insert_v2 API and embed that logic
>> inside heap_insert_v2, then we can do this - pass the required
>> information and the functions ExecInsertIndexTuples and
>> ExecARInsertTriggers as callbacks so that, whether or not
>> heap_insert_v2 choses single or multi inserts, it can callback these
>> functions with the required information passed after the flush. We
>> can
>> add the callback and required information into TableInsertState. But,
>> I'm not quite sure, we would make ExecInsertIndexTuples and
>> ExecARInsertTriggers.
> 
> How should the API interact with INSERT INTO ... SELECT? Right now it
> doesn't appear to be integrated at all, but that seems like a fairly
> important path for bulk inserts.
> 
> Regards,
>     Jeff Davis
> 
> 

Hi,

You mean how it could because of that the table modification API uses 
the table_tuple_insert_speculative ? Just wondering if you think if it 
generally cannot work or would like to see that path / more paths 
integrated in to the patch.

Kind regards,
Luc