can COPY from csv.lz4 files?

BHIFPBHIFP Vertica Customer

I have bunch of .csv.lz4 files in s3 that I want to copy into vertica table. Is it possible? If not, what would be the best file format for this purpose? Thanks

Answers

  • Jim_KnicelyJim_Knicely - Select Field - Administrator

    We did some research on LZ4 compression in the past. I can update the Jira to let the engineering team know that there is interest in it in the field.

    For now though, I think the only way to load LZ4 compressed files is to cat them into a COPY command.

    Like this:

    [dbadmin@vertica ~]$ cat test.txt
    1
    2
    3
    
    [dbadmin@vertica ~]$ lz4 test.txt > test.lz4
    
    [dbadmin@vertica ~]$ lz4cat test.lz4
    1
    2
    3
    
    [dbadmin@vertica ~]$ lz4cat test.lz4 | vsql -c "COPY test FROM STDIN;"
    
    [dbadmin@vertica ~]$ vsql -c "SELECT * FROM test;"
     c
    ---
     1
     2
     3
    (3 rows)
    
  • You can write your own lz4 filter.
    From what I remember, it took around 2 days of work, around 200 lines of c++.

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