On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:46:05PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Michael Fuhr wrote: > > What's your setting? > > Default. Have you tweaked postgresql.conf at all? If so, what non-default settings are you using? > > Are your test results more consistent > > if you execute CHECKPOINT between them? > > Could you tell me how I could do that? Connect to the database as a superuser and execute a CHECKPOINT statement. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-checkpoint.html