parallel append: suppress generation of "dta_source" variable
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Description
Hello! Is there a way to suppress the generation of "dta_source" during a run of parallel append? This would be a useful feature when parallel is being used under memory constraints: "dta_source", because it is a file path and file name, is an arbitrarily long string. It can easily double the file size.
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Start by locating the parallel append implementation and the code that creates the dta_source variable. Determine how generation can be suppressed without changing the append result or parallel execution, then verify that a run with the option leaves dta_source absent and avoids storing the file path.
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- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100