INSERTs becoming slower and slower

Hi,

I am breaking up huge texts (between 25K and 250K words) into single words using PgPlsql.

For this I am using a temp table in the first step :

LOOP

vLeft := vRight;
vTmp := vLeft;

LOOP
vChr := SUBSTRING ( pText FROM vTmp FOR 1);
vTmp := vTmp + 1;
EXIT WHEN (vChr = ' ' OR vChr IS NULL OR vTmp = cBorder);
END LOOP;

vRight := vTmp;

vLit := SUBSTRING(pText FROM vLeft FOR (vRight - vLeft - 1));

IF (LENGTH(vLit) > 0) THEN
WRDCNT := WRDCNT +1;
INSERT INTO DEX_TEMPDOC(TMP_DOO_ID
, TMP_SEQ_ID
, TMP_RAWTEXT)
VALUES (pDOO_ID
, I
, vLIT
);
END IF;

I := I + 1;
vTmp := LENGTH(vLIT);

IF ((WRDCNT % 100) = 0) THEN
PROGRESS = ROUND((100 * I) / DOCLEN,0);
RAISE NOTICE '[PROC] % WORDS -- LAST LIT % (Len %) [% PCT / % of %]', WRDCNT, vLIT, vTMP, PROGRESS, I, DOCLEN;
END IF;


EXIT WHEN vRight >= cBorder;
END LOOP;

The doc is preprocessed, between each word only a single blank can be.

My problem is : The first 25K words are quite quick, but the insert become slower and slower. starting with 1K words per sec I end up with 100 words in 10 sec (when I reach 80K-100K words)

the only (nonunique index) on tempdoc is on RAWTEXT.

What can I do ? Should I drop the index ?

Here is my config:

shared_buffers = 2000 # min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each
work_mem = 32768 # min 64, size in KB
maintenance_work_mem = 16384 # min 1024, size in KB
max_stack_depth = 8192 # min 100, size in KB

enable_hashagg = true
enable_hashjoin = true
enable_indexscan = true
enable_mergejoin = true
enable_nestloop = true
enable_seqscan = false

The machine is a XEON 3GHz, 1GB RAM, SATA RAID 1 Array running 8.0.4 i686 precompiled

Thanks !

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