Re: speed concerns with executemany()

From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Cc: mike bayer <mike_mp(at)zzzcomputing(dot)com>, "psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org" <psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: speed concerns with executemany()
Date: 2016-12-24 00:29:14
Message-ID: CA+mi_8bRFzam87VLPtqxmF=a8tt5=0RgH6-sK+w1Ae7Yujs4uA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
> Are you running with the transaction isolation level set to ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT? If so, each of those INSERTs will be in its own transaction, and thus will go through the COMMIT overhead. That by itself wouldn't explain a jump that large (in most environments), but it will definitely be *much* slower.

Why do you say this? Psycopg doesn't wrap statements in BEGIN/COMMIT
when in autocommit mode. Are you referring about some implicit
transaction created by the database?

-- Daniele

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