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authorFrançois Freitag <mail@franek.fr>2016-06-03 15:31:21 -0700
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-01-11 09:25:37 -0500
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treed64dedfcd04cfbe8d7599aa6411597cccba6eb17 /docs/ref/models
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Refs #16614 -- Made QuerySet.iterator() use server-side cursors on PostgreSQL.
Thanks to Josh Smeaton for the idea of implementing server-side cursors in PostgreSQL from the iterator method, and Anssi Kääriäinen and Kevin Turner for their previous work. Also Simon Charette and Tim Graham for review.
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@@ -1981,15 +1981,15 @@ evaluated will force it to evaluate again, repeating the query.
Also, use of ``iterator()`` causes previous ``prefetch_related()`` calls to be
ignored since these two optimizations do not make sense together.
-.. warning::
+Some Python database drivers still load the entire result set into memory, but
+won't cache results after iterating over them. Oracle and :ref:`PostgreSQL
+<postgresql-server-side-cursors>` use server-side cursors to stream results
+from the database without loading the entire result set into memory.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 1.11
- Some Python database drivers like ``psycopg2`` perform caching if using
- client side cursors (instantiated with ``connection.cursor()`` and what
- Django's ORM uses). Using ``iterator()`` does not affect caching at the
- database driver level. To disable this caching, look at `server side
- cursors`_.
+ PostgreSQL support for server-side cursors was added.
-.. _server side cursors: http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html#server-side-cursors
``latest()``
~~~~~~~~~~~~