I have an array of arrays that I am INSERTing into a Pg table (pseudo-code ahead) — 

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO table (a, b, c) VALUES (?, ?, ?)"
+);
for my $row (@table) {
    $sth->execute($row->[0], $row->[1], $row->[2]);
}
$dbh->commit;

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I'd like to speed up the INSERTs by possibly using the COPY table FROM STDIN WITH DELIMITER AS ',' command. Is there a way I can do that? Is there some other way I can speed up the INSERTs?

Update: I should have added, right now the INSERTs are rather slow; several seconds for every 100K INSERTs.

Update2: I finally got a result back from one set of INSERTs. I am getting ~3300 insertions per second. I would consider that fairly slow.

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In reply to Speeding up Postgres INSERTs by punkish

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