On 5/5/21 3:36 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 02:45:41PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I'm currently using the pg_read_file()-hack in a project, >>> and even though it can read files up to 1GB, >>> using e.g. regexp_split_to_table() to split on E'\n' >>> seems to need 4x as much memory, so it only >>> works with files less than ~256MB. >> Yeah, that's because of the conversion to "chr". But a regexp >> is overkill for that anyway. Don't we have something that will >> split on simple substring matches? > For v14 > > commit 66f163068030b5c5fe792a0daee27822dac43791 > Author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > Date: Wed Sep 2 18:23:56 2020 -0400 > > Add string_to_table() function. >
Ha! just in time :-) cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
