From 2312ed100b3d83530297ea1dedb755990750e425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aarni Koskela <akx@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:25:46 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] REGR: be able to read Stata files without reading them fully
 into memory

Fixes #48700
Regressed in pandas-dev/pandas#9245
Regressed in 2f0ada3d430f0cc49fa9ab1e7e2e2a7ec23c9616
---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst |  1 +
 pandas/io/stata.py             | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
index 3c7a80f0968448..8ebf77eeb84340 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ MultiIndex
 I/O
 ^^^
 - Bug in :func:`read_sas` caused fragmentation of :class:`DataFrame` and raised :class:`.errors.PerformanceWarning` (:issue:`48595`)
+- Regression in :class:`StataReader` caused all files to needlessly be buffered in memory (:issue:`48922`)
 -
 
 Period
diff --git a/pandas/io/stata.py b/pandas/io/stata.py
index 6baf5f0da86124..640c0d5cd5c63f 100644
--- a/pandas/io/stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/stata.py
@@ -1164,15 +1164,23 @@ def __init__(
         self._lines_read = 0
 
         self._native_byteorder = _set_endianness(sys.byteorder)
-        with get_handle(
+
+        handles = get_handle(
             path_or_buf,
             "rb",
             storage_options=storage_options,
             is_text=False,
             compression=compression,
-        ) as handles:
-            # Copy to BytesIO, and ensure no encoding
-            self.path_or_buf = BytesIO(handles.handle.read())
+        )
+        if hasattr(handles.handle, "seekable") and handles.handle.seekable():
+            # If the handle is directly seekable, use it without an extra copy.
+            self.path_or_buf = handles.handle
+            self._close_file = handles.close
+        else:
+            # Copy to memory, and ensure no encoding.
+            with handles:
+                self.path_or_buf = BytesIO(handles.handle.read())
+            self._close_file = self.path_or_buf.close
 
         self._read_header()
         self._setup_dtype()
@@ -1192,7 +1200,7 @@ def __exit__(
 
     def close(self) -> None:
         """close the handle if its open"""
-        self.path_or_buf.close()
+        self._close_file()
 
     def _set_encoding(self) -> None:
         """