It used to be that you would give the target table name as an option to the
PostgreSQL connection string, which is untasteful:
load ... into pgsql://user@host/dbname?tablename=foo.bar ...
Or even, for backwards compatibility:
load ... into pgsql://user@host/dbname?foo.bar ...
The new syntax makes provision for a separate clause for the target table
name, possibly schema-qualified:
load ... into pgsql://user@host/dbname target table foo.bar ...
Which is much better, in particular when used together with the target
columns clause.
Implementing this seemingly quite small feature had impact on many parsing
related features of pgloader, such as the regression testing facility. So
much so that some extra refactoring got into its way here, around the
lisp-code-for-loading-from-<source> functions and their usage in
`load-data'.
While at it, this patch simplifies a lot the `load-data' function by making
a good use of &allow-other-keys and :allow-other-keys t.
Finally, this patch splits main.lisp into main.lisp and api.lisp, with the
latter intended to contain functions for Common Lisp programs wanting to use
pgloader as a library. The API itself is still the same as before this
patch, tho. Just in another file for clarity.
When the option "drop indexes" is in use in loading data from a file, we
collect the indexes from the PostgreSQL catalogs and then issue DROP
commands against them before the load, then CREATE commands when it's
done.
The CREATE is done in parallel, and we create an lparallel kernel for
that. The kernel must have a worker-count of at least 1, and we where
not considering the case of 0 indexes on the target table.
Fix#484.
More than the syntax and API tweaks, this patch also make it so that a
multi-file specification (using e.g. ALL FILENAMES IN DIRECTORY) can be
loaded with several files in the group in parallel.
To that effect, tweak again the md-connection and md-copy
implementations.
With this the user is now able to have a way about where the files are
going to be read and matched against the regular expression. It used not
to be necessary in the archive expansion mode, but is required now that
the feature is exposed in more cases.
When using LOAD CSV it's possible to load from filename matching a
regular expression, but for that to work the *csv-path-root* needs to be
properly setup at run-time.
