OK, thanks very much. It seems like my process is somehow flawed. I'll try removing some layers and see if I can figure out what is killing the performance.
Eric
>
> Do these numbers surprise you? Are these files just too large for
> storage in PostgreSQL to be practical? Could there be something about
> my methodology that is slowing things down?
Yes, it does surprise me. I just tested inserting an 11MB file using
psycopg2(Python) and it was less then a second.