Re: [GENERAL] storing large files in database - performance

I am pleased to report that with Merlin's suggestion of using the pg-large-object middleware, I have a test case now
showingthat I can write a 25MB buffer from Node.js to Postgres in roughly 700 milliseconds.  Here is the JavaScript
code,which is nearly verbatim from the example in the pg-large-object doc:
 

packages.testLargeObjects = function(callback) {
   var pgp = require('pg-promise')();
   var LargeObjectManager = require('pg-large-object').LargeObjectManager;
   var PassThrough = require('stream').PassThrough;

   var bufSize = 1024 * 1024 * 25;
   var buf = new Buffer(bufSize);
   buf.fill("pgrocks");

   var connInfo = {
      host:       'localhost',
      port:       5432,
      database:    'mydb',
      user:       'postgres,
      password:    'secret'
   };

   var db = pgp(connInfo);

   db.tx(function(tx) {
      const lObjMgr = new LargeObjectManager({pgPromise: tx});
      const bufferSize = 16384;

      return lObjMgr.createAndWritableStreamAsync(bufferSize)
         .then( ([oid, stream]) => {
            let bufferStream = new PassThrough();
            bufferStream.end(buf);
            bufferStream.pipe(stream);
            return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
               stream.on('finish', resolve);
               stream.on('error', reject);
            });
         });
   })
   .then(function() {
      callback();
      pgp.end();
   })
   .catch(function(err) {
      callback(err);
      pgp.end();
   });
};

Thanks very much!

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure@gmail.com] 

Another point, some googling turned up
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-large-object which is definitely something to consider trying.

merlin