G B <g.b.coder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > How can explain-analyze return significantly much faster than other means? If the returned data is large or takes a lot of work to convert to text, this could happen, since EXPLAIN ANALYZE doesn't bother to format the tuples for display. How big are those bytea columns, on average? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance