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Streaming mode for downloading all rows as a CSV (#315)

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* table.csv?_stream=1 to download all rows - refs #266

This option causes Datasette to serve ALL rows in the table, by internally
following the _next= pagination links and serving everything out as a stream.

Also added new config option, allow_csv_stream, which can be used to disable
this feature.

* New config option max_csv_mb limiting size of CSV export
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docs/config.rst
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@ -125,3 +125,24 @@ Sets the amount of memory SQLite uses for its `per-connection cache <https://www
::
datasette mydatabase.db --config cache_size_kb:5000
allow_csv_stream
----------------
Enables the feature where an entire table (potentially hundreds of thousands of
rows) can be exported as a single CSV file. This is turned on by default - you
can turn it off like this::
::
datasette mydatabase.db --config allow_csv_stream:off
max_csv_mb
----------
The maximum size of CSV that can be exported, in megabytes. Defaults to 100MB.
You can disable the limit entirely by settings this to 0::
datasette mydatabase.db --config max_csv_mb:0

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@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ This will restrict sorting of ``example_table`` to just the ``height`` and
You can also disable sorting entirely by setting ``"sortable_columns": []``
.. _label_columns:
Specifying the label column for a table
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