Re: HELP: How to tame the 8.3.x JDBC driver with a biq guery result set

I have followed the instructions below to no avail .... any thoughts?

http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/83/query.html#query-with-cursor

This is what happens when I reduce the fetch_size to 50 ... stops after
about 950msec and 120 fetches (6k rows) ....

13:59:56,054 [PerfDataMigrator] ERROR
com.hyper9.storage.sample.persistence.PersistenceManager:3216 - Unexpected
error while migrating sample data: 6000
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: portal "C_14" does not exist
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1592)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1327)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.fetch(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1527)
at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.next(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:1843)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.next(DelegatingResultSet.java:169)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.next(DelegatingResultSet.java:169)
at
com.hyper9.storage.sample.persistence.PersistenceManager$Migrator.run(PersistenceManager.java:3156)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Cheers
Dave

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Dave Crooke <dcrooke(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hey folks
>
> I am trying to do a full table scan on a large table from Java, using a
> straightforward "select * from foo". I've run into these problems:
>
> 1. By default, the PG JDBC driver attempts to suck the entire result set
> into RAM, resulting in *java.lang.OutOfMemoryError* ... this is not cool,
> in fact I consider it a serious bug (even MySQL gets this right ;-) I am
> only testing with a 9GB result set, but production needs to scale to 200GB
> or more, so throwing hardware at is is not feasible.
>
> 2. I tried using the official taming method, namely *
> java.sql.Statement.setFetchSize(1000)* and this makes it blow up entirely
> with an error I have no context for, as follows (the number C_10 varies,
> e.g. C_12 last time) ...
>
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: portal "C_10" does not exist
> at
> org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1592)
> at
> org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1327)
> at
> org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.fetch(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1527)
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.next(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:1843)
>
> This is definitely a bug :-)
>
>
> Is there a known workaround for this ... will updating to a newer version
> of the driver fix this?
>
> Is there a magic incation of JDBC calls that will tame it?
>
> Can I cast the objects to PG specific types and access a hidden API to turn
> off this behaviour?
>
> If the only workaround is to explicitly create a cursor in PG, is there a
> good example of how to do this from Java?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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