Hide column in console

[stefan-girlich]

Status quo

1. I store small (<500kb) images as Base64-encoded URIs in a column of a database table
2. I navigate to https://myhost/console/data/default/schema/public/tables/mytable/browse in the Hasura console so browse data in the table
3. Initial load takes 30 seconds even though there are only two entries. The browser frame is not responding to input during this time
4. Selecting a row by clicking its checkbox takes around 10 seconds until the checkbox appears as "checked"; the browser frame is not responding to input during this time

Assumption: Full Base64 strings are loaded and only truncated later on in the browser, thus slowing down the browser.

Problem

I plan so switch to a dedicated file storage system for the images in any case. For other use cases, it may still make sense to store (smaller) images/data as Base64 strings in the database. Since this issue already exists for only two rows, I assume that it would also exist with smaller images, but a higher row count.

Suggested workaround

There could be an option to hide the column from the browser or replace the display values with a placeholder to mitigate the performance impact on the browser.