Hi all, I'm using Postgresql 8.2.3 on a Windows XP system. I need to write and retrieve bytea data from a table. The problem is that, while data insertion is quite fast, bytea extraction is very slow. I'm trying to store a 250KB image into the bytea field. A simple select query on a 36-row table takes more than one minute to execute. Any help would be very appreciated Thanks in advance Massimo