<< If what you mean is that pg has a design that's heavily oriented towards things that tend to be cheap on POSIX and doesn't use the core Win32 features effectively, then let's track that as an optimisation opportunity for the Win32 port. >> Isn't it just easier to assume that Windows Server can't do anything right? ;-) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match