I wrote: >Hello Harald, > >>I do not have a solution, but I can confirm the problem :) > >At least that rules out any misconfiguration issues :-( I did a quick test with my application and enabled the ODBC logging. Fetching the 50 rows takes 12 seconds (without logging 8 seconds) and examining the log I found what I suspected: the performance is directly related to the ping time to the server since fetching one tuple requires a round trip to the server. Rainer PS: I wonder why pgAdminIII requires twice the time to retrieve the data.