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On 4/12/2013, at 7:44 am, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/12/3 Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm>:
> 
>> What’s the current best option for a CSV (or tab separated, for that matter) file?
> 
> Define "best”.

On 28/11/2013, at 7:59 pm, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. It is actively being maintained.
> 3. A certain amount of quality control is in effect.

Covering the issues I mentioned would be handy too.  Maybe “handles corner cases and large files”?

> As far as I can tell, most solutions either:
>> - read the whole file in one go (constructing a table of all the values becomes
>> impractical as files get larger)
> 
> Is this comment based on gut feel (I'm deliberately avoiding "prejudice"), or
> do you have an actual example where this is a problem?

Metadata for the set of NZ land parcels is over 3GB.