Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

On 2023-12-03 Su 12:11, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 12/3/23 11:03, Joe Conway wrote:
>>   From your earlier post, regarding constructing the aggregate -- not
>> extensive testing but one data point:
>> 8<--------------------------
>> test=# copy foo to '/tmp/buf' (format json, force_array);
>> COPY 10000000
>> Time: 36353.153 ms (00:36.353)
>> test=# copy (select json_agg(foo) from foo) to '/tmp/buf';
>> COPY 1
>> Time: 46835.238 ms (00:46.835)
>> 8<--------------------------
>
> Also if the table is large enough, the aggregate method is not even
> feasible whereas the COPY TO method works:
> 8<--------------------------
> test=# select count(*) from foo;
>   count
> ----------
>  20000000
> (1 row)
>
> test=# copy (select json_agg(foo) from foo) to '/tmp/buf';
> ERROR:  out of memory
> DETAIL:  Cannot enlarge string buffer containing 1073741822 bytes by 1
> more bytes.
>
> test=# copy foo to '/tmp/buf' (format json, force_array);
> COPY 20000000
> 8<--------------------------

None of this is surprising. As I mentioned, limitations with json_agg()
are why I support the idea of this patch.

cheers

andrew

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