Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well, finally got this system upgraded to 8.1.8, but unfortunately, that did > not resolve this. Is there any reasonable way to see where this function is > spending it's time? I've grown enamored of oprofile lately --- if you're on a recent Linux system, try that. Solaris' DTrace is said to have equivalent capability. On other systems you could consider plain 'ol gprof. Any of these will require a certain amount of man-page-reading :-( regards, tom lane