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Created December 16, 2013 05:18
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Django efficient queryset iterator (by dividing in chunks). Taked from https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1949/
import gc
def queryset_iterator(queryset, chunksize=1000):
'''''
Iterate over a Django Queryset ordered by the primary key
This method loads a maximum of chunksize (default: 1000) rows in it's
memory at the same time while django normally would load all rows in it's
memory. Using the iterator() method only causes it to not preload all the
classes.
Note that the implementation of the iterator does not support ordered query sets.
'''
pk = 0
last_pk = queryset.order_by('-pk')[0].pk
queryset = queryset.order_by('pk')
while pk < last_pk:
for row in queryset.filter(pk__gt=pk)[:chunksize]:
pk = row.pk
yield row
gc.collect()
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ghost commented Feb 26, 2020

The approach in this link is more efficient and stable.

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