>In psql the trick is to use unaligned display mode, else psql itself >eats a whole lot of time trying to nicely format those 250KB rows:
Even using unaligned display mode (\a) it still takes more than 1 minute > >I surmise that your problem is likewise on the client side, but you >weren't very specific about what client code you were using. Look >for bottlenecks associated with processing of very wide rows... Every client I use is affected by the problem. The main client is a java program that connects to the db through jdbc. Even writing a simple program that only performs a select query doesn't solve the problem. A select query issued using pgAdmin takes the same time and so does the show data command in pgAdmin Maybe this is a problem related to the win32 version of postgres (I haven't tried to run this db under linux) Regards Massimo ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate