Re: CSV Generation Loading Entire SAV

[Ben Pfaff]

Another way to translate .sav to .csv is to run the "pspp-convert"
utility, without even starting the main PSPP executable.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:18:35PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> Yes.
> 
> Check out the SET WORKSPACE command.
> 
> J'
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:09:32PM -0500, Dave Trollope wrote:
>      Hi,
>      
>      We are using the following script to generate CSV's for a subset of
>      variables in an SAV file and it looks like pspp is loading the entire SAV
>      file in to memory. (Some of our SAV files are quite large - 4GB). I'm
>      wondering if there is an option or a way we can reduce the memory usage
>      when extracting a subset of variables?
>      
>      GET FILE = "{}"
>      
>      SAVE TRANSLATE
>      ?? /OUTFILE="{}"
>      ?? /TYPE=CSV
>      ?? /FIELDNAMES
>      ?? /REPLACE
>      ?? /KEEP={}
>      ?? /MISSING=RECODE
>      ?? /CELLS=LABELS.
>      
>      Cheers
>      Dave
>      
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