postgresql - Java JDBC ignores setFetchSize?

Question

I'm using the following code

 st = connection.createStatement(
            ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY,
            ResultSet.FETCH_FORWARD,
            ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY
             );
 st.setFetchSize(1000);
 System.out.println("start query ");
 rs = st.executeQuery(queryString);
 System.out.println("done query");

The query return a lot of (800k) rows and it take a large time (~2m) between printing "start query" and "done query". When I manually put an "limit 10000" in my query there's no time between "start" and "done". Processing the results takes time so I guess it's overall faster if it just fetches 1k rows from the database, processes those and when it's running out of rows it can get new ones in the background.

The ResultsSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY etc where my last guess; am I missing something?

(it's a postgresql 8.3 server)

Answer 1

Try turning auto-commit off:

// make sure autocommit is off
connection.setAutoCommit(false);

 st = connection.createStatement();
 st.setFetchSize(1000);
 System.out.println("start query ");
 rs = st.executeQuery(queryString);
 System.out.println("done query");

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