Add support for --max-parallel-sections and --section-threads from command line.

.gitignore

@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 /pgloader/textreader.pyc
 /pgloader/tools.pyc
 /pgloader.1.xml
+/pgloader/RRRtools.pyc
+/reformat/mysql.pyc
+/reformat/pgtime.pyc

pgloader.1.txt

@@ -166,6 +166,17 @@ You can't use both -F and -I at the same time.
 
     Input data files encoding. Defaults to 'latin9'.
 
+-t, --section-threads::
+
+    How many threads per section to use, defaults to 1. The command line
+    value override the configuration file one.
+
+-m, --max-parallel-sections::
+
+    How many sections to load in parallel, defaults to 1. The command line
+    value override the configuration file one. That's a max value because
+    you will end up having less sections to load than this number.
+
 -R, --reformat_path::
 
     PATH where to find reformat python modules, defaults to

pgloader.py

@@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ def parse_options():
                       default = None,
                       help    = "input files encoding")
 
+    parser.add_option("-t", "--section-threads", dest = "section_threads",
+                      default = pgloader.options.SECTION_THREADS, 
+                      type    = "int",
+                      help    = "number of threads used per sections, default is 1")
+
+    parser.add_option("-m", "--max-parallel-sections", dest = "parallel",
+                      default = pgloader.options.MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS,
+                      type    = "int",
+                      help    = "number of sections to load in parralel, " +\
+                          "default is 1")
+
     parser.add_option("-R", "--reformat_path", dest = "reformat_path",
                       default = None,
                       help    = "PATH where to find reformat python modules")
@@ -189,6 +200,9 @@ def parse_options():
     pgloader.options.FROM_ID    = opts.fromid
     pgloader.options.FIELD_SEP  = opts.fsep
 
+    pgloader.options.SECTION_THREADS       = opts.section_threads
+    pgloader.options.MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = opts.parallel
+
     pgloader.options.INPUT_ENCODING = opts.encoding
 
     if opts.reformat_path:
@@ -320,8 +334,9 @@ def parse_config(conffile):
             pgloader.options.REFORMAT_PATH = rpath
 
     if config.has_option(section, 'max_parallel_sections'):
-        mps = config.getint(section, 'max_parallel_sections')
+        if not pgloader.options.MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS:
-        pgloader.options.MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = mps
+            mps = config.getint(section, 'max_parallel_sections')
+            pgloader.options.MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = mps
 
     return config
 
@@ -536,6 +551,8 @@ def load_data():
     if max_running == -1:
         max_running = len(sections)
 
+    log.info('Will load %d section at a time' % max_running)
+
     sem = threading.BoundedSemaphore(max_running)
     
     while current < len(sections):

pgloader/options.py

@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ UDC_PREFIX = 'udc_'
 REFORMAT_PATH = None
 DEFAULT_REFORMAT_PATH = ['/usr/share/python-support/pgloader/reformat']
 
-MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = 1
+DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = 1
-SECTION_THREADS       = 1
+DEFAULT_SECTION_THREADS       = 1
+MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS = None
+SECTION_THREADS       = None
 SPLIT_FILE_READING    = False
 RRQUEUE_SIZE          = None
 

pgloader/pgloader.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from options import NEWLINE_ESCAPES
 from options import UDC_PREFIX
 from options import REFORMAT_PATH
 from options import MAX_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
-from options import SECTION_THREADS, SPLIT_FILE_READING
+from options import DEFAULT_SECTION_THREADS, SECTION_THREADS, SPLIT_FILE_READING
 from options import RRQUEUE_SIZE
 
 class PGLoader(threading.Thread):
@@ -529,11 +529,17 @@ class PGLoader(threading.Thread):
         self.log.debug("self.newline_escapes = '%s'" % self.newline_escapes)
 
         ##
-        # Parallelism knobs
+        # Parallelism knobs, give preference to command line
-        if config.has_option(name, 'section_threads'):
+        if SECTION_THREADS:
+            self.section_threads = SECTION_THREADS
+        elif config.has_option(name, 'section_threads'):
             self.section_threads = config.getint(name, 'section_threads')
         else:
-            self.section_threads = SECTION_THREADS
+            self.section_threads = DEFAULT_SECTION_THREADS
+
+        if not self.template:
+            # only log the definitive information
+            self.log.info("Loading threads: %d" % self.section_threads)
 
         if config.has_option(name, 'split_file_reading'):
             self.split_file_reading = config.get(name, 'split_file_reading') == 'True'