django-pgbulk

django-pgbulk provides functions for doing native Postgres bulk upserts (i.e. UPDATE ON CONFLICT), bulk updates, and COPY FROM.

Bulk upserts can distinguish between updated/created rows and ignore unchanged updates.

Bulk updates are true bulk updates, unlike Django's bulk_update which can still suffer from O(N) queries and can create poor locking scenarios.

Bulk copies can significantly speed-up bulk inserts, sometimes by an order of magnitude over Django's bulk_create.

Quick Start

Examples

Update or insert rows

import pgbulk

pgbulk.upsert(
    MyModel,
    [
        MyModel(int_field=1, some_attr="some_val1"),
        MyModel(int_field=2, some_attr="some_val2"),
    ],
    # These are the fields that identify the uniqueness constraint.
    ["int_field"],
    # These are the fields that will be updated if the row already
    # exists. If not provided, all fields will be updated
    ["some_attr"]
)

Bulk update rows

import pgbulk

pgbulk.update(
    MyModel,
    [
        MyModel(id=1, some_attr='some_val1'),
        MyModel(id=2, some_attr='some_val2')
    ],
    # These are the fields that will be updated. If not provided,
    # all fields will be updated
    ['some_attr']
)

Copy rows into a table

import pgbulk

pgbulk.copy(
    MyModel,
    # Insert these rows using COPY FROM
    [
        MyModel(id=1, some_attr='some_val1'),
        MyModel(id=2, some_attr='some_val2')
    ],
)

Advanced Features

Here are some advanced features at a glance:

• pgbulk.upsert can categorize which rows were inserted or updated.
• pgbulk.upsert and pgbulk.update can ignore updating unchanged fields.
• pgbulk.upsert and pgbulk.update can use expressions in updates.

Documentation

View the django-pgbulk docs here for more examples.

Compatibility

django-pgbulk is compatible with Python 3.10 - 3.14, Django 4.2 - 6.0, Psycopg 2 - 3, and Postgres 14 - 18.

Installation

Install django-pgbulk with:

pip3 install django-pgbulk

Contributing Guide

For information on setting up django-pgbulk for development and contributing changes, view CONTRIBUTING.md.

Creators

• Wes Kendall

Other Contributors

• @max-muoto
• @dalberto