On Monday 04 June 2007 17:17:03 Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > And did you use the same encoding and locale? Text operations on > multibyte encodings are much more expensive. The db was created as: createdb -E UNICODE -O <user> <dbname> -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net Linux is the answer, now what was your question?