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Add to duckdb WASM build?
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This seems like it could be very useful for in-browser use cases. From my little research it seems like browser support for caching partial reads is not great.
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Be great if I could open the duckdb WASM console, and install and load the extension, and it would do its caching magic to speed up queries.
See DuckDB WASM Page for more about how DuckDB WASM is used to run DuckDB in the browser.
Hi @dobesv , thank you for the feedback!
At the moment, we only focus on linux and macos, because we two (@douenergy and I) only have mac/linux access. We are seriously considering adding windows/wasm support now since there're already a few users asks.
Will keep you posted! Stay in touch, and feel free to leave comments and feature requests!
Hi, just to be clear, WASM is not a Windows thing. It's what is used to run duckdb in the browser.
See https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/wasm/overview.html
Hi, just to be clear, WASM is not a Windows thing. It's what is used to run duckdb in the browser.
See https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/wasm/overview.html
Thanks for the clarification and apologize for the confusion. I put these two items together because there're feature requests for windows platform also. We will checkout how hard it is to setup WASM.
Hopefully there's an example to follow in the duckdb main repo build scripts how they built the core extensions using emscripten that you can easily follow 🤞🏻
@dobesv Thanks for the interesting. WASM is a very exciting technology, but if we want to persist the cache like we do in non-WASM builds, we need to make sure OPFS works properly with our extension. If we find a way, we will definitely let you know.
It looks like in the WASM build they had to customize the httpfs stuff a lot, so this might not be as simple as I initially thought unfortunately.