Opened 13 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#13869 closed New feature (fixed)

Documentation should mention that QuerySet.iterator() method doesn't affect db driver

Reported by: Jani Tiainen Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.2
Severity: Normal Keywords: orm large dataset psycopg2
Cc: timograham@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Some Python database drivers, like psycopg2 does caching if using client side cursors (instantiated with connection.cursor() call).

Driver itself will still cache all data from queryset causing in huge datasets massive usage of memory even Django documentation suggests that using QuerySet.iterator() doesn't cache anything. It should be noted that database drivers still might do that.

Side-effects: This also will lead to double caching in normal situations. First psycopg2 caches raw queryset itself and after that Django caches queryset.

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Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by Gabriel Hurley

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by Graham King

Severity: Normal
Type: New feature

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by Aymeric Augustin

UI/UX: unset

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by Aymeric Augustin

Easy pickings: unset

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

Changed 11 years ago by Tim Graham

Attachment: 13869.diff added

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by Tim Graham

Cc: timograham@… added
Has patch: set

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 2f722d9728c1946d5d800b3e0b24de7f566a755d:

Fixed #13869 - Warned that QuerySet.iterator() doesn't affect DB driver caching; thanks jtiai for the suggestion.

comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

In 6c1c490f64bb5114570a45a523bec365f89f681d:

[1.4.X] Fixed #13869 - Warned that QuerySet.iterator() doesn't affect DB driver caching; thanks jtiai for the suggestion.

Backport of 2f722d9728 from master

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