Selecting large objects stored as bytea

Hello,

I have the following problem accessing postgres (version: 8.2.X) from java 1.6_03 using driver (currently version: postgresql-8.2-508.jdbc4.jar) and hope someone can help me. I have created an table 'files' with the columns 'file_id', 'filename' and 'file_content'. 'file_content'is of type bytea and should store large binary files. A method for storing files in that table also exists and work fine.

Now I am trying to select a stored 'file_content' from the table and store it directly on the filesystem. Because the files could be very large, i don't want to hold them in the main memory -- so I am using Input- and Outputstreams (see source code below).

When i am now selecting a file_content (of only 50 MByte -- according to the pgsql documentation files of 1 GByte are supported) the running of the source code below results in a 'Out of Memory Exception' at the command line

'ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery(selectClause);'

After increase of HEAP in java it works, but also the java needs much memory, as I don't expect it. I have also tried to substitute this command line by prepared-statement like
'PreparedStatement ps = this.dbConnection.prepareStatement(selectClause);'

Do have anyone a solution for that problem?

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Ludger Zachewitz

SOURCE-CODE:

public void selectLargeObject(String selectClause, File file)
throws SQLException, IOException {
InputStream in = null;

this.dbConnection.setAutoCommit(false);
Statement statement = this.dbConnection.createStatement(
ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY, ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY);

ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery(selectClause);

if (rs != null) {
while (rs.next()) {
in = rs.getBinaryStream('file_content');
}

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);

int readBytes = 0;
byte[] value = new byte[1024];

while ((readBytes = in.read(value)) > 0) {
fos.write(value, 0, readBytes);
}
fos.flush();
fos.close();
rs.close();
}
statement.close();
}

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