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Use pgcopy_ for fast data loading into PostgreSQL with binary copy_.

.. _binary copy: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-copy.html .. _pgcopy: https://pgcopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Features

• Support for many data types
• Support for multi-dimensional array types
• Support for schema and schema search path
• Transparent string encoding
• Utility for replacing entire table

Quickstart

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::

from datetime import datetime
from pgcopy import CopyManager
import psycopg2
cols = ('id', 'timestamp', 'location', 'temperature')
now = datetime.now()
records = [
        (0, now, 'Jerusalem', 72.2),
        (1, now, 'New York', 75.6),
        (2, now, 'Moscow', 54.3),
    ]
conn = psycopg2.connect(database='weather_db')
mgr = CopyManager(conn, 'measurements_table', cols)
mgr.copy(records)

# don't forget to commit!
conn.commit()

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Supported datatypes

pgcopy supports the following PostgreSQL scalar types:

• bool
• smallint
• integer
• bigint
• real
• double precision
• char
• varchar
• text
• bytea
• enum types
• date
• time
• timestamp
• timestamp with time zone
• numeric
• json
• jsonb
• uuid
• arrays

Documentation

Read the docs._

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See Also

cpgcopy_, a Cython implementation, about twice as fast.

.. _binary copy: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-copy.html .. _psycopg2: https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/ .. _pytz: https://pypi.org/project/pytz/ .. _pytest: https://pypi.org/project/pytest/ .. _cpgcopy: https://github.com/altaurog/cpgcopy .. _Tox: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/