Fixed #7596. Added Model.objects.bulk_create, and make use of it in several places. This provides a performance benefit when inserting multiple objects. THanks to Russ for the review, and Simon Meers for the MySQl implementation.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16739 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

docs/ref/models/querysets.txt

@@ -1158,6 +1158,29 @@ has a side effect on your data. For more, see `Safe methods`_ in the HTTP spec.
 
 .. _Safe methods: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.1.1
 
+bulk_create
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. method:: bulk_create(objs)
+
+This method inserts the provided list of objects into the database in an
+efficient manner (generally only 1 query, no matter how many objects there
+are)::
+
+    >>> Entry.objects.bulk_create([
+    ...     Entry(headline="Django 1.0 Released"),
+    ...     Entry(headline="Django 1.1 Announced"),
+    ...     Entry(headline="Breaking: Django is awesome")
+    ... ])
+
+This has a number of caveats though:
+
+  * The model's ``save()`` method will not be called, and the ``pre_save`` and
+    ``post_save`` signals will not be sent.
+  * It does not work with child models in a multi-table inheritance scenario.
+  * If the model's primary key is an :class:`~django.db.models.AutoField` it
+    does not retrieve and set the primary key attribute, as ``save()`` does.
+
 count
 ~~~~~
 

docs/releases/1.4.txt

@@ -252,6 +252,17 @@ filename. For example, the file ``css/styles.css`` would also be saved as
 See the :class:`~django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage`
 docs for more information.
 
+``Model.objects.bulk_create`` in the ORM
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This method allows for more efficient creation of multiple objects in the ORM.
+It can provide significant performance increases if you have many objects,
+Django makes use of this internally, meaning some operations (such as database
+setup for test suites) has seen a performance benefit as a result.
+
+See the :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.bulk_create` docs for more
+information.
+
 Minor features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

docs/topics/db/optimization.txt

@@ -268,3 +268,33 @@ instead of::
 
    entry.blog.id
 
+Insert in bulk
+==============
+
+When creating objects, where possible, use the
+:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.bulk_create()` method to reduce the
+number of SQL queries. For example::
+
+    Entry.objects.bulk_create([
+        Entry(headline="Python 3.0 Released"),
+        Entry(headline="Python 3.1 Planned")
+    ])
+
+Is preferable to::
+
+    Entry.objects.create(headline="Python 3.0 Released")
+    Entry.objects.create(headline="Python 3.1 Planned")
+
+Note that there are a number of :meth:`caveats to this method
+<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.bulk_create>`, make sure it is appropriate for
+your use case. This also applies to :class:`ManyToManyFields
+<django.db.models.ManyToManyField>`, doing::
+
+    my_band.members.add(me, my_friend)
+
+Is preferable to::
+
+    my_band.members.add(me)
+    my_band.members.add(my_friend)
+
+Where ``Bands`` and ``Artists`` have a many-to-many relationship.