How do I batch sql statements with package database/sql

Question

How do I batch sql statements with Go\'s database/sql package?

In Java I would do it like this :

// Create a prepared statement
String sql = \"INSERT         


        

Answer 1

Take the idea of Andrew C and adapt it for a need in my work using sql scalar variables. It works perfectly for that specific requirement in my work. Maybe it is useful to someone because it is useful to simulate batch transactions of sql in golang. That's the idea.

func BulkInsert(unsavedRows []*ExampleRowStruct) error {
    valueStrings := make([]string, 0, len(unsavedRows))
    valueArgs := make([]interface{}, 0, len(unsavedRows) * 3)
    i := 0
    for _, post := range unsavedRows {
        valueStrings = append(valueStrings, fmt.Sprintf("(@p%d, @p%d, @p%d)", i*3+1, i*3+2, i*3+3))
        valueArgs = append(valueArgs, post.Column1)
        valueArgs = append(valueArgs, post.Column2)
        valueArgs = append(valueArgs, post.Column3)
        i++
    }
    sqlQuery := fmt.Sprintf("INSERT INTO my_sample_table (column1, column2, column3) VALUES %s", strings.Join(valueStrings, ","))

    var params []interface{}

    for i := 0; i < len(valueArgs); i++ {
        var param sql.NamedArg
        param.Name = fmt.Sprintf("p%v", i+1)
        param.Value = valueArgs[i]
        params = append(params, param)
    }

    _, err := db.Exec(sqlQuery, params...)
    return err
}

Answer 2

I got pq.CopyIn working, and it's actually 2.4x faster than the string values/args approach (which was super helpful and an elegant solution, btw, so thank you!)

I inserted 10 million test values of int, varchar into a struct, and loaded it with the following function. I'm kinda new to GoLang, so bear with me ...

func copyData(client *client.DbClient, dataModels []*dataModel) error{
    db := *client.DB
    txn, err := db.Begin()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer txn.Commit()

    stmt, err := txn.Prepare(pq.CopyIn("_temp", "a", "b"))
    if err != nil {
        return(err)
    }

    for _, model := range dataModels{
        _, err := stmt.Exec(model.a, model.b)
        if err != nil {
            txn.Rollback()
            return err
        }
    }

    _, err = stmt.Exec()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    err = stmt.Close()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    return nil
    }

`

Elapsed (stringValues/args): 1m30.60s.

Elapsed (copyIn): 37.57s.

Answer 3

For Postgres lib pq supports bulk inserts: https://godoc.org/github.com/lib/pq#hdr-Bulk_imports

But same can be achieved through below code but where it is really helpful is when one tries to perform bulk conditional update (change the query accordingly).

For performing similar bulk inserts for Postgres, you can use the following function.

// ReplaceSQL replaces the instance occurrence of any string pattern with an increasing $n based sequence
func ReplaceSQL(old, searchPattern string) string {
   tmpCount := strings.Count(old, searchPattern)
   for m := 1; m <= tmpCount; m++ {
      old = strings.Replace(old, searchPattern, "$"+strconv.Itoa(m), 1)
   }
   return old
}

So above sample becomes

sqlStr := "INSERT INTO test(n1, n2, n3) VALUES "
vals := []interface{}{}

for _, row := range data {
   sqlStr += "(?, ?, ?)," // Put "?" symbol equal to number of columns
   vals = append(vals, row["v1"], row["v2"], row["v3"]) // Put row["v{n}"] blocks equal to number of columns
}

//trim the last ,
sqlStr = strings.TrimSuffix(sqlStr, ",")

//Replacing ? with $n for postgres
sqlStr = ReplaceSQL(sqlStr, "?")

//prepare the statement
stmt, _ := db.Prepare(sqlStr)

//format all vals at once
res, _ := stmt.Exec(vals...)

Answer 4

One more good library to look at with chain syntax is go-pg

https://github.com/go-pg/pg/wiki/Writing-Queries#insert

Insert multiple books with single query:

err := db.Model(book1, book2).Insert()

Answer 5

Expanding on Avi Flax's answer, I needed an ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause in my INSERT.

The solution to this is to COPY to a temporary table (set to delete at the end of the transaction) then INSERT from the temporary table to the permanent table.

Here's the code I settled on:

func (fdata *FDataStore) saveToDBBulk(items map[fdataKey][]byte) (err error) {
    tx, err := fdata.db.Begin()
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "begin transaction")
    }
    txOK := false
    defer func() {
        if !txOK {
            tx.Rollback()
        }
    }()

    // The ON COMMIT DROP clause at the end makes sure that the table
    // is cleaned up at the end of the transaction.
    // While the "for{..} state machine" goroutine in charge of delayed
    // saving ensures this function is not running twice at any given time.
    _, err = tx.Exec(sqlFDataMakeTempTable)
    // CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE fstore_data_load
    // (map text NOT NULL, key text NOT NULL, data json)
    // ON COMMIT DROP
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "create temporary table")
    }

    stmt, err := tx.Prepare(pq.CopyIn(_sqlFDataTempTableName, "map", "key", "data"))
    for key, val := range items {
        _, err = stmt.Exec(string(key.Map), string(key.Key), string(val))
        if err != nil {
            return errors.Wrap(err, "loading COPY data")
        }
    }

    _, err = stmt.Exec()
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "flush COPY data")
    }
    err = stmt.Close()
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "close COPY stmt")
    }

    _, err = tx.Exec(sqlFDataSetFromTemp)
    // INSERT INTO fstore_data (map, key, data)
    // SELECT map, key, data FROM fstore_data_load
    // ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE SET data = EXCLUDED.data
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "move from temporary to real table")
    }

    err = tx.Commit()
    if err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "commit transaction")
    }
    txOK = true
    return nil
}

Answer 6

Here is a take on @Debasish Mitra's solution if you are using Postgres.

Functioning example: https://play.golang.org/p/dFFD2MrEy3J

Alternate example: https://play.golang.org/p/vUtW0K4jVMd

data := []Person{{"John", "Doe", 27}, {"Leeroy", "Jenkins", 19}}

vals := []interface{}{}
for _, row := range data {
    vals = append(vals, row.FirstName, row.LastName, row.Age)
}

sqlStr := `INSERT INTO test(column1, column2, column3) VALUES %s`
sqlStr = ReplaceSQL(sqlStr, "(?, ?, ?)", len(data))

//Prepare and execute the statement
stmt, _ := db.Prepare(sqlStr)
res, _ := stmt.Exec(vals...)

func ReplaceSQL

func ReplaceSQL(stmt, pattern string, len int) string {
    pattern += ","
    stmt = fmt.Sprintf(stmt, strings.Repeat(pattern, len))
    n := 0
    for strings.IndexByte(stmt, '?') != -1 {
        n++
        param := "$" + strconv.Itoa(n)
        stmt = strings.Replace(stmt, "?", param, 1)
    }
    return strings.TrimSuffix(stmt, ",")
}