package de.swingbe.postgres_java; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; public class JavaPostgreSqlBatchUpdates { public static void main(String[] args) { //connection URL for the postgres database //jdbc:postgresql://:/ String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/testdb"; String user = "usr"; String password = "#password"; try (Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password)) { try (Statement st = con.createStatement()) { //autocommit should always be turned off when doing batch updates con.setAutoCommit(false); //create a new table called friends and insert five rows into it st.addBatch("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends"); st.addBatch("CREATE TABLE friends(id serial, name VARCHAR(10))"); st.addBatch("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES ('Jane')"); st.addBatch("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES ('Tom')"); st.addBatch("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES ('Rebecca')"); st.addBatch("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES ('Jim')"); st.addBatch("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES ('Robert')"); //method returns an array of committed changes int[] counts = st.executeBatch(); con.commit(); System.out.println("Committed " + counts.length + " updates"); } catch (SQLException ex) { if (con != null) { try { con.rollback(); } catch (SQLException ex1) { Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(JavaPostgreSqlBatchUpdates.class.getName()); lgr.log(Level.WARNING, ex1.getMessage(), ex1); } } Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(JavaPostgreSqlBatchUpdates.class.getName()); lgr.log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage(), ex); } } catch (SQLException ex) { Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(JavaPostgreSqlBatchUpdates.class.getName()); lgr.log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage(), ex); } } }