The psycopg2 ``cursor.executemany()`` method has been identified as performing
poorly, particularly with INSERT statements. To alleviate this, psycopg2
has added `Fast Execution Helpers <http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/extras.html#fast-execution-helpers>`_
-which rework statements such as INSERT statements into fewer SQL calls with
-multiple VALUES clauses. SQLAlchemy 1.2 now includes support for these
+which rework statements into fewer server round trips by sending multiple
+DML statements in batch. SQLAlchemy 1.2 now includes support for these
helpers to be used transparently whenever the :class:`.Engine` makes use
of ``cursor.executemany()`` to invoke a statement against multiple parameter
sets. The feature is off by default and can be enabled using the