| From: | Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Joe Carlson <jwcarlson(at)lbl(dot)gov> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: TEXT column > 1Gb | 
| Date: | 2023-04-12 16:36:25 | 
| Message-ID: | d84a153a-8ea6-ae4a-7d3e-c713908f97f6@gmail.com | 
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On 4/12/23 08:59, Joe Carlson wrote:
> I’m curious what you learned. I’ve been tripping over the buffer 
> allocation issue when either splitting input text into chunks or 
> aggregating chunks in selects. I’ve decided that I need to move this 
> to client side.
>
> The use case is genomics. Extracting substrings is common. So going to 
> chunked storage makes sense.
>
> And we have a menagerie of code to deal with. Legacy Perl for loading. 
> Clients in Perl, Java, node, python. A whole zoo.
>
> Thanks
My first stab was a java implementation based Selector class which 
worked ok using a fixed buffer size but finding the end of last 
transmission was hokey.  I move to an embedded Tomcat implementation and 
tomcat does the heavy lifting PERFECTLY.  Easily slipped in to both 
client and backend.
rjs
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