I tend to agree with Tobi. Prefetching silently not working on iterator can be quite confusing, unless you have a good understanding of both APIs. It might be possible to do what you're asking, but it'd mean that django is now actually caching the result when it explicitly says it isn't - even if the result is a much smaller moving cache. Prefetching chunk_size results per chunk is unlikely to make a material difference to memory usage. Users are usually concerned about the entire result set of the primary table.
I don't know if you can change the API to make these suggested changes without also impacting how we iterate over result sets - but I'd be interested in seeing a proof of concept at the very least. On Monday, 15 October 2018 20:41:13 UTC+11, tobias....@truffls.com wrote: > > Thank you for your feedback. I would like to answer some statements to > either convince you or make it more clear, where my idea stems from: > > The fundamental reason why iterator() cannot be used with >> prefetch_related() is that the latter requires a set of model instance to >> be materialized to work appropriately which chunk_size doesn't control at >> all. >> In other words chunk_size only controls how many rows should be fetched >> from the database cursor and kept into memory at a time. Even when this >> parameter is used, iterator() will only materialize a single model instance >> per yield. >> > > It should be easily possible to change the involved code of ModelIterable > to materialize the retrieved rows in batches. After materializing the batch > / chunk, it could do the prefetching. > > >> Given that iterator() always ignored prefetch related lookups instead of >> erroring out when they were specified make me feel like turning such a >> feature on by default could be problematic as it could balloon the memory >> usage which is the main reason why iterator is useful anyway. >> > > I would argue, that users who thoughtlessly applied prefetching together > with iterator now actually get, what they thought of: less DB query round > trips traded against a little more memory usage. > > Best, > Tobi > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/e7a36092-0743-41dc-998e-eee11fa1180b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
