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In response to Re: Any optimizations using oracle_fdw with oracle tables that haveclob columns?  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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Thanks for the explanation. We will make the best of what we have given the constraints.

Regards,

Craig
On Jun 19, 2020, 1:00 AM -0600, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, wrote:
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 09:54 -0600, Hotmail wrote:
We are moving a table (with almost a billion rows) to Postgres from Oracle using oracle_fdw.
We have discovered that there is a single row fetch limitation in oracle when pulling a row
that contains a clob column into Postgres.

My question is, other than running multiple oracle_fdw parallel threads to speed up the data
load are there any other optimizations that we may be unaware for oracle_fdw when working
with Oracle clob columns?

No, this is a limitation of Oracle:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/lnoci/using-sql_statements-in-oci.html#GUID-7AE9DBE2-5316-4802-99D1-969B72823F02
"Prefetching is not in effect if LONG, LOB or Opaque Type columns (such as XMLType) are part of the query."

I could change the code to *not* use automatic prefetching and rather explicitly fetch
rows in bundles, but so far I have been too lazy to complicate the code with that.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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