On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:03:38PM -0700, George Pavlov wrote: > i have wondered myself. i wouldn't do it through pgAdmin (not sure what > the best test it, but i thought psql from the same machine might be > better--see below). anyway, the funny thing is that if you concatenate > them the time drops: Sure. Take a look at the output and you'll see there's less data to shove around. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)