[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-442?page=all ]

Mike Matrigali updated DERBY-442:
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    Component: SQL

> Update triggers on tables with blob columns stream blobs into memory even 
> when the blobs are not referenced/accessed.
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>
>          Key: DERBY-442
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-442
>      Project: Derby
>         Type: Sub-task
>   Components: SQL
>     Versions: 10.2.0.0
>     Reporter: A B
>     Priority: Minor
>      Fix For: 10.2.0.0
>  Attachments: d442.java
>
> Suppose I have 1) a table "t1" with blob data in it, and 2) an UPDATE trigger 
> "tr1" defined on that table, where the triggered-SQL-action for "tr1" does 
> NOT reference any of the blob columns in the table.  [ Note that this is 
> different from DERBY-438 because DERBY-438 deals with triggers that _do_ 
> reference the blob column(s), whereas this issue deals with triggers that do 
> _not_ reference the blob columns--but I think they're related, so I'm 
> creating this as subtask to 438 ].  In such a case, if the trigger is fired, 
> the blob data will be streamed into memory and thus consume JVM heap, even 
> though it (the blob data) is never actually referenced/accessed by the 
> trigger statement.
> For example, suppose we have the following DDL:
>     create table t1 (id int, status smallint, bl blob(2G));
>     create table t2 (id int, updated int default 0);
>     create trigger tr1 after update of status on t1 referencing new as n_row 
> for each row mode db2sql update t2 set updated = updated + 1 where t2.id = 
> n_row.id;
> Then if t1 and t2 both have data and we make a call to:
>     update t1 set status = 3;
> the trigger tr1 will fire,  which will cause the blob column in t1 to be 
> streamed into memory for each row affected by the trigger.  The result is 
> that, if the blob data is large, we end up using a lot of JVM memory when we 
> really shouldn't have to (at least, in _theory_ we shouldn't have to...).
> Ideally, Derby could figure out whether or not the blob column is referenced, 
> and avoid streaming the lob into memory whenever possible (hence this is 
> probably more of an "enhancement" request than a bug)...

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