The query seems fine. The reason it doesn’t work is that Virtuoso first loads
the triples that match into a vector (which has a limited size), and then
deletes those that match the delete clause. In this case, because your
problem seems simple, you can just drop to SQL to avoid that:
LOG_ENABLE(3,0);
DELETE FROM RDF_QUAD
WHERE g = rdf_make_iid_of_qname(graph_uri)
AND p = rdf_make_iid_of_qname(predicate_uri);
If you had wanted to delete all the triples for subjects that match, then
SPARQL delete offers some powerful abstractions, but Virtuoso’s vector size
would still get in your way. It would be nice if the buffering were
automatic, but I’m not sure how that would work given the delete’s capability
of being an entirely different set of triples related to the others – there are
even BIND and other SPARQL capabilities that OpenLink’s engineers would have to
deal with.
From: Pantelis Natsiavas [mailto:natsia...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:55 AM
To: Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
Cc: virtuoso-users
Subject: Re: [Virtuoso-users] Deleting large number of triples
Thank you for your advice Daniel.
Actually I want to delete only the statements containing the specific
predicate. I don't want to delete all the triples containing the subject of the
predicate. As I have already said, I don't feel comfortable with the DELETE
queries.
Is my query wrong? Could you suggest the correct query?
Kind regards,
Pantelis Natsiavas
2016-08-17 17:19 GMT+03:00 Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
mailto:daniel.da...@nih.gov>>:
So, this has nothing to do with the large vector size, but just to be sure the
SPARQL is correct - do you wish to delete the subjects (and all their triples)
where the subject has the predicate, or just the predicate itself?
As far as avoiding the maximum vector size, I think your best approach is to
limit the number of matches and repeat the query until there are no results,
maybe with a count query in-between. I have had to do similar sorts of
work-arounds to avoid the maximum # of results and maximum size of string
issues. For instance, my first attempts to export large NTriples files after
processing failed due to these issues. You may be able to adapt the code
below, but I think that a repeated deleted query limited to a # of triples will
be best in your case.
Anyway, the code:
CREATE PROCEDURE meshrdf_export(in graph_uri varchar, in file_name varchar) {
DECLARE banner any;
DECLARE env, ses any;
DECLARE ses_len, max_ses_len any;
SET isolation = 'uncommitted';
max_ses_len := 1000;
--
-- Truncate file and write a comment line indicating the graph and datetime
of export.
--
--no_c_escapes-
banner := sprintf('# <%s> exported at %s\n', graph_uri, datestring(now()));
string_to_file (file_name, banner, -2);
env := vector (0, 0, 0);
ses := string_output ();
FOR (SELECT * FROM (SPARQL
define input:storage ""
SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE {
GRAPH `iri(?:graph_uri)` {
?s ?p ?o
}
} ORDER BY ?s ?p ?o) AS sub OPTION (loop)) DO {
http_nt_triple (env, "s", "p", "o", ses);
ses_len := length (ses);
IF (ses_len > max_ses_len) {
string_to_file (file_name, ses, -1);
ses := string_output ();
}
}
IF (length (ses)) {
string_to_file (file_name, ses, -1);
}
}
Dan Davis, Systems/Applications Architect (Contractor),
Office of Computer and Communications Systems,
National Library of Medicine, NIH
From: Pantelis Natsiavas
[mailto:natsia...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4:36 AM
To: virtuoso-users
mailto:virtuoso-users@lists.sourceforge.net>>
Subject: [Virtuoso-users] Deleting large number of triples
Hi everybody.
I am trying to delete a large number of triples of a very big graph. The graph
contains 217.609.545 triples and I want to delete all the triples having a
specific predicate (64.884.016 triples).
I am trying to do it through the isql-v command line interface, using the
command:
SPARQL DEFINE sql:log-enable 3
WITH
DELETE { ?s ?o }
WHERE{ ?s ?o }
After some time (I don't know exactly how much) I got the error
*** Error 42000: [Virtuoso Driver][Virtuoso Server]FRVEC: array in for vectored
over max vector length 200 > 100
at line 1 of Top-Level:
I checked the virtuoso.log and I see nothing related to the specific error.
I changed the parameters in virtuoso.ini:
MaxQueryMem = 8G ; from 2G
VectorSize = 1000 ; not changed
MaxVectorSize = 200 ; from 100
AdjustVectorSize = 1 ; from 0
I am not very confident about these changes in virtuoso settings, but checking
the http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/dbadm.html these changes seemed the
right thing to do.
I restarted the VM
