On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > > are you using the 'copy' interface? > > Straightforward inserts - the import data has to transformed, normalised and > de-duped by the import program. I imagine the copy interface is for more > straightforward data importing. These are - buy necessity - single row > inserts. BTW, stuff like de-duping is something you really want the database - not an external program - to be doing. Think about loading the data into a temporary table and then working on it from there. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)