Hi Kenton, thanks for the quick response. I was working now on this 
solution, the limit per blob is not too much of a problem for me. 
Thanks to Cap'n proto I think I'll have an elegant solution. Thanks.

El lunes, 31 de octubre de 2022 a las 20:32:30 UTC+1, [email protected] 
escribió:

> For a single Text or Data blob there is a hard limit of 512MB. You can, 
> however, construct a message which contains multiple blobs, e.g. use 
> `List(Text)`. Such a message can be up to 2^64 bytes.
>
> If I were redesigning the encoding from scratch I'd probably allow for 
> bigger individual blobs but there's no way to introduce them now without 
> breaking compatibility, unfortunately.
>
> Protobuf theoretically supports 2GB messages but because the messages have 
> to be parsed upfront in O(n) time, you won't have good results with 
> messages of that size. Cap'n Proto, on the other hand, quite comfortably 
> supports multi-GB messages since you can mmap() the message and randomly 
> access it in O(1) time.
>
> -Kenton
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:21 PM Josemi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I need to work with an structured data that have atributes with undefined 
>> lenght, some of them could have GB. 
>>
>> I have been using Protocol Buffers for it until I see that exists a hard 
>> limit of 2GB per message.   Then I see this Stack Overflow solution 
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34128872/google-protobuf-maximum-size>. 
>> It says that  Cap'n Proto "can support messages up to 2^64 bytes (2^32 
>> segments of 4GB each)"
>>
>> I reprogram the code and now it raise the error  
>> *capnp.lib.capnp.KjException: 
>> capnp/layout.c++:1694: failed: text blob too big  * trying to set a 0.8 
>> GB buffer to a Data type.
>>
>> On Cap'n Proto the atribute seems like that:
>> *file @1 :Data; # ptr[1],*
>>
>> And the code, in Python,  is something like:
>> file = open('data_file', 'rb').read()
>>
>>
>> Whats wrong with that. 
>> Cap'n Proto won't solve my problem?.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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