NAME

DBIx::Insert::Multi -- Insert multiple table rows in a single statement

SYNOPSIS

    use DBIx::Insert::Multi;

    my $dbh = DBI->connect(...);

    my $multi = DBIx::Insert::Multi->new({ dbh => $dbh, });
    $multi->insert(
        book => [
            {
                title            => "Winnie the Pooh",
                author           => "Milne",
                publication_date => DateTime->new(year => 1926)->ymd,
            },
            {
                title            => "Paddington",
                author           => "Bond",
                publication_date => DateTime->new(year => 1958)->ymd,
            },
        ],
    );   # die on error

    # Database specific INSERT statement
    # MySQL: don't stop on errors
    my $multi = DBIx::Insert::Multi->new({
        ...
        insert_sql_fragment => "INSERT IGNORE INTO",
    });

DESCRIPTION

Bulk insert many db rows using a single INSERT INTO statement, e.g.

    INSERT INTO book (author, publication_date, title) VALUES
        ( ?, ?, ? ),
        ( ?, ?, ? );

Restrictions

All the hashrefs with row data should be shaped the same, i.e. have the same keys.

You should only use values that can be inserted into a database.

That means no data structures (refs), and no objects. However, objects will be stringified, so if they have overloaded stringification that will work.

Note that DateTime objects are stringified to a format that is unlikely to work correctly with your database date format (and without a timezone), so make sure you construct strings manually before inserting them.

Undefs become NULL as usual.

ISSUES

last_insert_id

It may be that you need to get hold of the PK ids of the inserted rows. This is very non-standard and fiddly, so at this point this module doesn't officially do any of that.

You can do this yourself though, but I wouldn't bet it's very reliable.

    $dbh->last_insert_id(undef, undef, $table, undef);

Calling "$dbh->last_insert_id" returns a newly inserted row PK value. It seems to vary between databases whether this is the id of the first row or the last one. For instance:

• MySQL: first

• Postgres: last

If the PK is an auto-increment / sequence, it is probably not guaranteed that these ids are in an unbroken series, but at least MySQL seems to do that.

Read more about all the caveats here: "last_insert_id" in DBI.

Returning ids

Some databases (Postgres) support INSERT INTO ... RETURNING, which can be used to retrieve data from the inserted rows. This seems to be the only reliable way to do this.

This module can't do this at the moment, but patches are welcome. Please submit a bug to open a discission about what the API should look like.

METHODS

insert($table_name, $records_arrayref)

Perform the insert into $table_name of all the rows in $records_arrayref (arrayref with hashrefs, where the hashref keys are the column names, and the values are the column values).

The return value not specified. If the query fails, die.

SEE ALSO

DBIx::Class

If you already have a DBIx::Class schema, you can bulk insert rows efficiently using the "populate" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet method (note: in void context!). You won't get back the new ids.

DEVELOPMENT

Author

Johan Lindstrom, <johanl [AT] cpan.org>

Source code

https://github.com/jplindstrom/p5-DBIx-Insert-Multi

Bug reports

Please report any bugs or feature requests on GitHub:

https://github.com/jplindstrom/p5-DBIx-Insert-Multi/issues.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2019- Broadbean Technologies, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Broadbean for providing time to open source this module.

cpanm DBIx::Insert::Multi

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install DBIx::Insert::Multi