"Kynn Jones" <kynnjo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I'm back at the drawing board. How can I make fast bulk inserts into a > PostgreSQL database from within a Perl script? The simplest and most effective thing you can do is to wrap many inserts into a single transaction block. After that, if you're using a driver that has "real" prepared statement support, setting up a prepared INSERT statement should help some. regards, tom lane