Matt Van Mater <matt.vanmater@gmail.com> writes:
> I've been experimenting with loading a large amount of data into a
> fairly simple database using both psql and perl prepared statements.
> Unfortunately I'm seeing no appreciable differences between the two
> methods, where I was under the impression that prepared statements
> should be much faster (in my case, they are slightly slower).
They should be faster ... if the client library is really using
server-side prepared statements, and not trying to fake it. Up till
7.4 came out there wasn't any very useful way to use server-side
prepared statements in a driver, and I think only the very latest
version of DBD::Pg knows anything about it. See this thread for
some recent discussion:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2005-04/msg00029.php
regards, tom lane