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Django chunked queryset iterator

Author:
mingdongt
Posted:
January 9, 2017
Language:
Python
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Tags:
django python database queryset iterator memoryerror
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1 (after 1 ratings)

The function slices a queryset into smaller querysets containing chunk_size objects and then yield them. It is used to avoid memory error when processing huge queryset, and also database error due to that the database pulls whole table at once. Concurrent database modification wouldn't make some entries repeated or skipped in this process.

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def chunked_queryset(queryset, chunk_size):
    """ Slice a queryset into chunks. """

    start_pk = 0
    queryset = queryset.order_by('pk')

    while True:
        # No entry left
        if not queryset.filter(pk__gt=start_pk).exists():
            break

        try:
            # Fetch chunk_size entries if possible
            end_pk = queryset.filter(pk__gt=start_pk).values_list(
                'pk', flat=True)[chunk_size - 1]

            # Fetch rest entries if less than chunk_size left
        except IndexError:
            end_pk = queryset.values_list('pk', flat=True).last()

        yield queryset.filter(pk__gt=start_pk).filter(pk__lte=end_pk)

        start_pk = end_pk

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