JavaFan> 3300 insertions/second comes to 30 seconds for 100K. 
JavaFan> I find 30 fairly large for "several". 
Indeed. When I asked the original question, I didn't have the correct number. Now I do, for one instance of the job.
JavaFan> But is this number for 3300 separate queries, or a single 
JavaFan> query with 3300 rows?
I am not sure what you mean by "a single query with 3300 rows." I mean $sth->execute() is called for each row, and a $dbh->commit() is called once every 100_000 rows. In the end, I get i rows inserted in j wallclock seconds (via Benchmark), and i / j is equal to approx. 3300.

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In reply to Re^4: Speeding up Postgres INSERTs by punkish
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