Implementing a functionality for processing heavy insertion

[Shadin A <shadin__a@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there,

I use PostgreSQL 9.1
The scenario is:
I receive heavy insertion into Table1 (about 100 rows a sec). For each new entry, I have to check it with the previous and next ones (check if those items are inside an area using ST_DWithin). Depending on the result, what I need to do is: use the new entry (joining another table) to insert/update into new table.
My Questions are:

• I used to use Trigger to do the checking and insertion/updating. the header is as follows:

CREATE TRIGGER ts_trigger
  AFTER INSERT
  ON table1
  FOR EACH ROW
  EXECUTE PROCEDURE test_trigger();

But I don't think it's the efficient way to do it.

I'm inserted in using batches. I'd like to understand the technique but cannot find a good resources for this.
Some advise me to use temp table, but I don't think it would be useful in my case.