BUG FIX: Raise appropriate strings error when concatenating strings column

python/cudf/cudf/core/column/column.py

@@ -2312,5 +2312,12 @@ def _concat_columns(objs: "MutableSequence[ColumnBase]") -> ColumnBase:
     else:
         # Filter out inputs that have 0 length, then concatenate.
         objs = [o for o in objs if len(o)]
-        col = libcudf.concat.concat_columns(objs)
+        try:
+            col = libcudf.concat.concat_columns(objs)
+        except RuntimeError as e:
+            if "concatenated rows exceeds size_type range" in str(e):
+                raise OverflowError(
+                    "total size of output is too large for a cudf column"
+                ) from e
+            raise
     return col

python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_column.py

@@ -441,3 +441,17 @@ def test_build_series_from_nullable_pandas_dtype(pd_dtype, expect_dtype):
     ).to_array()
 
     np.testing.assert_array_equal(expect_mask, got_mask)
+
+
+def test_concatenate_large_column_strings():
+    num_strings = 1_000_000
+    string_scale_f = 100
+
+    s_1 = cudf.Series(["very long string " * string_scale_f] * num_strings)
+    s_2 = cudf.Series(["very long string " * string_scale_f] * num_strings)
+
+    with pytest.raises(
+        OverflowError,
+        match="total size of output is too large for a cudf column",
+    ):
+        cudf.concat([s_1, s_2])