"Steven Flatt" <steven.flatt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've been trying to reproduce the problem for days now :). I've done pretty > much exactly what you describe below, but I can't reproduce the problem on > any of our lab machines. Something is indeed special in this environment. Yuck. You could try strace'ing the problem backend and see if anything is visibly different between fast and slow operation. I don't suppose you have oprofile on that machine, but if you did it'd be even better. regards, tom lane
