Ah, well by "recently" I'm guessing you mean within the last 6 months. I 
just did an update and works now :)

Thanks for the additional advice - I will have the scheduled task return a 
TABLE(). Now I need to take a closer look at your w2p_tvseries code to get 
the PeriodicalUpdater to work.

-Andre

On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 3:32:12 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
>
> this has been solved recently (the result couldn't be larger than 64k on 
> most platforms). Right now it has no limitations, although its surely 
> finite. 
> Please do keep in mind that (on top of your task being forced to pass 
> around big chunks of data) result is always json string. 
> Whenever you need to save and load a result, you convert back and forth 
> to/from json.
>
> If your "thing to do" its in the form of a series of zillions of rows that 
> needs to stored properly, you'd waste far less "energy" just making your 
> scheduled task saving the result in the "final" table rather than returning 
> the result and then having another piece that fetches the result from the 
> scheduled task and translates the result to the table.
>
> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 5:44:53 PM UTC+2, Alfonso Serra wrote:
>>
>> A Task's run_output and run_result fields types are mapped to LONGTEXT if 
>> you are using mysql, this is 4gb storage capacity. Python strings should be 
>> around 3Gb depending on your system's ram amount. 
>>
>>
>>

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