Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw

Extends the FDW API to allow batching inserts into foreign tables. That
is usually much more efficient than inserting individual rows, due to
high latency for each round-trip to the foreign server.

It was possible to implement something similar in the regular FDW API,
but it was inconvenient and there were issues with reporting the number
of actually inserted rows etc. This extends the FDW API with two new
functions:

* GetForeignModifyBatchSize - allows the FDW picking optimal batch size

* ExecForeignBatchInsert - inserts a batch of rows at once

Currently, only INSERT queries support batching. Support for DELETE and
UPDATE may be added in the future.

This also implements batching for postgres_fdw. The batch size may be
specified using "batch_size" option both at the server and table level.

The initial patch version was written by me, but it was rewritten and
improved in many ways by Takayuki Tsunakawa.

Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200628151002.7x5laxwpgvkyiu3q@development

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/nodes/list.c b/src/backend/nodes/list.c
index c4eba6b053f..dbf6b30233a 100644
--- a/src/backend/nodes/list.c
+++ b/src/backend/nodes/list.c
@@ -277,6 +277,21 @@ list_make4_impl(NodeTag t, ListCell datum1, ListCell datum2,
 	return list;
 }
 
+List *
+list_make5_impl(NodeTag t, ListCell datum1, ListCell datum2,
+				ListCell datum3, ListCell datum4, ListCell datum5)
+{
+	List	   *list = new_list(t, 5);
+
+	list->elements[0] = datum1;
+	list->elements[1] = datum2;
+	list->elements[2] = datum3;
+	list->elements[3] = datum4;
+	list->elements[4] = datum5;
+	check_list_invariants(list);
+	return list;
+}
+
 /*
  * Make room for a new head cell in the given (non-NIL) list.
  *