Rainer Bauer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > one of my customers installed Postgres on a public server to access the data > from several places. The problem is that it takes _ages_ to transfer data from > the database to the client app. At first I suspected a problem with the ODBC > driver and my application, but using pgAdminIII 1.6.3.6112 (on Windows XP) > gives the same result. I seem to recall that we've seen similar reports before, always involving Windows :-(. Check whether you have any nonstandard components hooking into the network stack on that machine. regards, tom lane