AFAIK copy does not have a returning clause, which I need to retrieve the 
generated primary key IDs. Is there a way around that?

On Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 22:36:08 UTC+2 robjs...@gmail.com wrote:

>
>
> On May 28, 2024, at 9:16 AM, Giovanni Zotta <giovann...@teampicnic.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> This is not necessarily a jOOQ issue, but I wonder how you would best 
> solve it when using jOOQ. If it's too off-topic, feel free to direct me 
> somewhere else. 
>
> We have been using jOOQ happily for a while in production; every day we 
> have a couple of big bulk insert queries (inserting >200k records at once) 
> that were taking ~2 minutes every time. Some days ago, we configured a 
> parameter in our Postgres server (idle_in_transaction_session_timeout 
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-IDLE-IN-TRANSACTION-SESSION-TIMEOUT>)
>  
> that kills all sessions that are in a transaction, but haven't executed any 
> query in 30s. After implementing this configuration, these inserts started 
> to fail. 
>
> On closer inspection of a past trace where the timeout is not implemented, 
> these are the logs on our services:
>
>    1. 23:31:53: Application starts the insert query (with returning 
>    clause)
>    2. 23:31:56: SQL is rendered by jOOQ and logged (3s)
>    3. 23:33:53: Postgres says query took 8s (after 2 minutes)
>    4. 23:33:54: Application fetched all results, and transaction is 
>    committed in the same second
>
> So, Postgres says the query took ~8s, but the application has been waiting 
> for 2 minutes. We think this is because the SQL we render is very large 
> (it's a query of the form `insert into table (column1, column2) values (1, 
> 2), (3,4)`) and Postgres spends a lot of time parsing it, even though 
> honestly ~2 minutes seems like a lot of time.
>
> This is not a jOOQ issue per-se, but we speculated that splitting the 
> query up into smaller batches would solve the issue. I'm curious what 
> options we have to do such an insert, where we also need to return the IDs 
> of the generated records. 
>
> Regards,
> Giovanni
>
>
> Use PostgreSQL copy command.  You may have to send the (delimited) data to 
> the server and let the server use copy.
>

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