Hi, Amir, AMIR FRANCO D. JOVEN wrote: > My current project uses PostgreSQL 7.3.4. By all means, please upgrade. The newest 7.3 series version is 7.3.16, which fixes lots of critical bugs, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for 7.3.4 (see Release Notes at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/release.html ) The newest stable release is 8.1.5, and 8.2 is just on the roads... > I have a table with 94 fields and a select with only one resultset in > only one client consumes about 0.86 seconds. "with only on resultset"? You mean "with only one returned row", I presume. Each SELECT has exactly one resultset, which can contain zero to many rows. Please check the following: - Did you create the appropriate indices? - Version 7.3.X may suffer from index bloat, so REINDEX might help. - Did you VACUUM and ANALYZE the table properly? - Is your free space map setting, the statistics targets, and other config options tuned to fit your environment? - Maybe a VACUUM FULL or a CLUSTER command may help you. > for a single select with one field in one resultset, is 0.86 seconds normal? That depends on the circumstances. Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in Europe! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org