OK - spent some more time profiling what was going on on both the client
and server machine. It began ti look more like a connector problem (I
was seeing low CPU usage on both client & server and could see very slow
BIND/INSERT/COMMIT commands being sent to the db).
Upgraded to Npgsql 1.0beta2 - from http://pgfoundry.org/projects/npgsql
and things have improved significantly.
Thanks for the help,
David.
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