> Did you think about putting the whole data into PostgreSQL using COPY in > a nearly unprocessed manner, index it properly, and then use SQL and > stored functions to transform the data inside the database to the > desired result? This is actually what we are doing. The slowness is on the row-by-row transformation. Every row reqauires that all the inserts and updates of the pvious row be committed - that's why we have problems figuring out how to use this using SQL set logic. Carlo