Django中prefetch_related()函数优化实战指南
作者:wy0925
前言
对于多对多字段(ManyToManyField)和一对多字段, 可以使用prefetch_related()来进行优化
prefetch_related()和select_related()的设计目的很相似,都是为了减少SQL查询的数量,但是实现的方式不一样。后者是通过JOIN语句,在SQL查询内解决问题。但是对于多对多关系,使用SQL语句解决就显得有些不太明智,因为JOIN得到的表将会很长,会导致SQL语句运行时间的增加和内存占用的增加。若有n个对象,每个对象的多对多字段对应Mi条,就会生成Σ(n)Mi 行的结果表。prefetch_related()的解决方法是,分别查询每个表,然后用Python处理他们之间的关系。继续以上边的例子进行说明,如果我们要获得张三所有去过的城市,使用prefetch_related()应该是这么做:
zhangs = Person.objects.prefetch_related('visitation').get(firstname=u"张",lastname=u"三") >>> for city in zhangs.visitation.all() : ... print city
上述代码触发的SQL查询如下:
SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_person` WHERE (`QSOptimize_person`.`lastname` = '三' AND `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname` = '张'); SELECT (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id`) AS `_prefetch_related_val`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` IN (1);
第一条SQL查询仅仅是获取张三的Person对象,第二条比较关键,它选取关系表`QSOptimize_person_visitation`中`person_id`为张三的行,然后和`city`表内联(INNER JOIN 也叫等值连接)得到结果表。
+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | id | firstname | lastname | hometown_id | living_id | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | 1 | 张 | 三 | 3 | 1 | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ | _prefetch_related_val | id | name | province_id | +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ | 1 | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 广州市 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
显然张三武汉、广州、十堰都去过。
又或者,我们要获得湖北的所有城市名,可以这样:
>>> hb = Province.objects.prefetch_related('city_set').get(name__iexact=u"湖北省") >>> for city in hb.city_set.all(): ... city.name ...
触发的SQL查询:
SELECT `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_province` WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`name` LIKE '湖北省' ; SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` WHERE `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` IN (1);
得到的表:
+----+-----------+ | id | name | +----+-----------+ | 1 | 湖北省 | +----+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) +----+-----------+-------------+ | id | name | province_id | +----+-----------+-------------+ | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | +----+-----------+-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
我们可以看见,prefetch使用的是 IN 语句实现的。这样,在QuerySet中的对象数量过多的时候,根据数据库特性的不同有可能造成性能问题。
使用方法
*lookups 参数
prefetch_related()在Django < 1.7 只有这一种用法。和select_related()一样,prefetch_related()也支持深度查询,例如要获得所有姓张的人去过的省:
>>> zhangs = Person.objects.prefetch_related('visitation__province').filter(firstname__iexact=u'张') >>> for i in zhangs: ... for city in i.visitation.all(): ... print city.province ...
触发的SQL:
SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_person` WHERE `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname` LIKE '张' ; SELECT (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id`) AS `_prefetch_related_val`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` IN (1, 4); SELECT `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_province` WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`id` IN (1, 2);
获得的结果:
+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | id | firstname | lastname | hometown_id | living_id | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | 1 | 张 | 三 | 3 | 1 | | 4 | 张 | 六 | 2 | 2 | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ | _prefetch_related_val | id | name | province_id | +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ | 1 | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 广州市 | 2 | | 4 | 2 | 广州市 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | +-----------------------+----+-----------+-------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) +----+-----------+ | id | name | +----+-----------+ | 1 | 湖北省 | | 2 | 广东省 | +----+-----------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
值得一提的是,链式prefetch_related会将这些查询添加起来,就像1.7中的select_related那样。
要注意的是,在使用QuerySet的时候,一旦在链式操作中改变了数据库请求,之前用prefetch_related缓存的数据将会被忽略掉。这会导致Django重新请求数据库来获得相应的数据,从而造成性能问题。这里提到的改变数据库请求指各种filter()、exclude()等等最终会改变SQL代码的操作。而all()并不会改变最终的数据库请求,因此是不会导致重新请求数据库的。
举个例子,要获取所有人访问过的城市中带有“市”字的城市,这样做会导致大量的SQL查询:
plist =Person.objects.prefetch_related('visitation') [p.visitation.filter(name__icontains=u"市")for p in plist]
因为数据库中有4人,导致了2+4次SQL查询:
SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_person`; SELECT (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id`) AS `_prefetch_related_val`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` IN (1, 2, 3, 4); SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE(`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` = 1 AND `QSOptimize_city`.`name` LIKE '%市%' ); SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` = 2 AND `QSOptimize_city`.`name` LIKE '%市%' ); SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` = 3 AND `QSOptimize_city`.`name` LIKE '%市%' ); SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` = 4 AND `QSOptimize_city`.`name` LIKE '%市%' );
众所周知,QuerySet是lazy的,要用的时候才会去访问数据库。运行到第二行Python代码时,for循环将plist看做iterator,这会触发数据库查询。最初的两次SQL查询就是prefetch_related导致的。
虽然已经查询结果中包含所有所需的city的信息,但因为在循环体中对Person.visitation进行了filter操作,这显然改变了数据库请求。因此这些操作会忽略掉之前缓存到的数据,重新进行SQL查询。
但是如果有这样的需求了应该怎么办呢?在Django >= 1.7,可以通过下一节的Prefetch对象来实现,如果你的环境是Django < 1.7,可以在Python中完成这部分操作。
plist = Person.objects.prefetch_related('visitation') [[city for city in p.visitation.all() if u"市" in city.name] for p in plist]
Prefetch对象
在Django >= 1.7,可以用Prefetch对象来控制prefetch_related函数的行为。
1.一个Prefetch对象只能指定一项prefetch操作。
2.Prefetch对象对字段指定的方式和prefetch_related中的参数相同,都是通过双下划线连接的字段名完成的。
3.可以通过 queryset 参数手动指定prefetch使用的QuerySet。
4.可以通过 to_attr 参数指定prefetch到的属性名。
5.Prefetch对象和字符串形式指定的lookups参数可以混用。
最佳实践
1.prefetch_related主要针一对多和多对多关系进行优化。
2.prefetch_related通过分别获取各个表的内容,然后用Python处理他们之间的关系来进行优化。
3.可以通过可变长参数指定需要select_related的字段名。指定方式和特征与select_related是相同的。
4.在Django >= 1.7可以通过Prefetch对象来实现复杂查询,但低版本的Django好像只能自己实现。
5.作为prefetch_related的参数,Prefetch对象和字符串可以混用。
6.prefetch_related的链式调用会将对应的prefetch添加进去,而非替换,似乎没有基于不同版本上区别。
7.可以通过传入None来清空之前的prefetch_related。
选择哪个函数
如果我们想要获得所有家乡是湖北的人,最无脑的做法是先获得湖北省,再获得湖北的所有城市,最后获得故乡是这个城市的人。就像这样:
>>> hb = Province.objects.get(name__iexact=u"湖北省") >>> people = [] >>> for city in hb.city_set.all(): ... people.extend(city.birth.all()) ...
显然这不是一个明智的选择,因为这样做会导致1+(湖北省城市数)次SQL查询。反正是个反例,导致的查询和获得掉结果就不列出来了。prefetch_related() 或许是一个好的解决方法,让我们来看看。
>>> hb = Province.objects.prefetch_related("city_set__birth").objects.get(name__iexact=u"湖北省") >>> people = [] >>> for city in hb.city_set.all(): ... people.extend(city.birth.all()) ...
因为是一个深度为2的prefetch,所以会导致3次SQL查询:
SELECT `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_province` WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`name` LIKE '湖北省' ; SELECT `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` WHERE `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` IN (1); SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_person` WHERE `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id` IN (1, 3);
嗯…看上去不错,但是3次查询么?倒过来查询可能会更简单?
>>> people = list(Person.objects.select_related("hometown__province").filter(hometown__province__name__iexact=u"湖北省"))
SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_person` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_city` ON (`QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id` = `QSOptimize_city`.`id`) INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_province` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` = `QSOptimize_province`.`id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`name` LIKE '湖北省';
+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+----+--------+-------------+----+--------+ | id | firstname | lastname | hometown_id | living_id | id | name | province_id | id | name | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+----+--------+-------------+----+--------+ | 1 | 张 | 三 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | 1 | 湖北省 | | 2 | 李 | 四 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | 1 | 湖北省 | | 3 | 王 | 麻子 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | 1 | 湖北省 | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+----+--------+-------------+----+--------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
完全没问题。不仅SQL查询的数量减少了,python程序上也精简了。select_related()的效率要高于prefetch_related()。因此,最好在能用select_related()的地方尽量使用它,也就是说,对于ForeignKey字段,避免使用prefetch_related()。对于同一个QuerySet,你可以同时使用这两个函数。在我们一直使用的例子上加一个model:Order (订单)
class Order(models.Model): customer = models.ForeignKey(Person) orderinfo = models.CharField(max_length=50) time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True) def __unicode__(self): return self.orderinfo
如果我们拿到了一个订单的id 我们要知道这个订单的客户去过的省份。因为有ManyToManyField显然必须要用prefetch_related()。如果只用prefetch_related()会怎样呢?
>>> plist = Order.objects.prefetch_related('customer__visitation__province').get(id=1) >>> for city in plist.customer.visitation.all(): ... print city.province.name ...
显然,关系到了4个表:Order、Person、City、Province,根据prefetch_related()的特性就得有4次SQL查询
SELECT `QSOptimize_order`.`id`, `QSOptimize_order`.`customer_id`, `QSOptimize_order`.`orderinfo`, `QSOptimize_order`.`time` FROM `QSOptimize_order` WHERE `QSOptimize_order`.`id` = 1 ; SELECT `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_person` WHERE `QSOptimize_person`.`id` IN (1); SELECT (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id`) AS `_prefetch_related_val`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` IN (1); SELECT `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_province` WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`id` IN (1, 2);
+----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+ | id | customer_id | orderinfo | time | +----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+ | 1 | 1 | Info of Order | 2014-08-10 17:05:48 | +----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | id | firstname | lastname | hometown_id | living_id | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | 1 | 张 | 三 | 3 | 1 | +----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ | _prefetch_related_val | id | name | province_id | +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ | 1 | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 广州市 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) +----+--------+ | id | name | +----+--------+ | 1 | 湖北省 | | 2 | 广东省 | +----+--------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
更好的办法是先调用一次select_related()再调用prefetch_related(),最后再select_related()后面的表
>>> plist = Order.objects.select_related('customer').prefetch_related('customer__visitation__province').get(id=1) >>> for city in plist.customer.visitation.all(): ... print city.province.name ...
这样只会有3次SQL查询,Django会先做select_related,之后prefetch_related的时候会利用之前缓存的数据,从而避免了1次额外的SQL查询:
SELECT `QSOptimize_order`.`id`, `QSOptimize_order`.`customer_id`, `QSOptimize_order`.`orderinfo`, `QSOptimize_order`.`time`, `QSOptimize_person`.`id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`firstname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`lastname`, `QSOptimize_person`.`hometown_id`, `QSOptimize_person`.`living_id` FROM `QSOptimize_order` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person` ON (`QSOptimize_order`.`customer_id` = `QSOptimize_person`.`id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_order`.`id` = 1 ; SELECT (`QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id`) AS `_prefetch_related_val`, `QSOptimize_city`.`id`, `QSOptimize_city`.`name`, `QSOptimize_city`.`province_id` FROM `QSOptimize_city` INNER JOIN `QSOptimize_person_visitation` ON (`QSOptimize_city`.`id` = `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`city_id`) WHERE `QSOptimize_person_visitation`.`person_id` IN (1); SELECT `QSOptimize_province`.`id`, `QSOptimize_province`.`name` FROM `QSOptimize_province` WHERE `QSOptimize_province`.`id` IN (1, 2);
+----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | id | customer_id | orderinfo | time | id | firstname | lastname | hometown_id | living_id | +----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | 1 | 1 | Info of Order | 2014-08-10 17:05:48 | 1 | 张 | 三 | 3 | 1 | +----+-------------+---------------+---------------------+----+-----------+----------+-------------+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ | _prefetch_related_val | id | name | province_id | +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ | 1 | 1 | 武汉市 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 广州市 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 十堰市 | 1 | +-----------------------+----+--------+-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) +----+--------+ | id | name | +----+--------+ | 1 | 湖北省 | | 2 | 广东省 | +----+--------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
值得注意的是,可以在调用prefetch_related之前调用select_related,并且Django会按照你想的去做:先select_related,然后利用缓存到的数据prefetch_related。然而一旦prefetch_related已经调用,select_related将不起作用。
小结
- 因为select_related()总是在单次SQL查询中解决问题,而prefetch_related()会对每个相关表进行SQL查询,因此select_related()的效率通常比后者高。
- 鉴于第一条,尽可能的用select_related()解决问题。只有在select_related()不能解决问题的时候再去想prefetch_related()。
- 你可以在一个QuerySet中同时使用select_related()和prefetch_related(),从而减少SQL查询的次数。
- 只有prefetch_related()之前的select_related()是有效的,之后的将会被无视掉。
总结
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