> Do you have any further idea why 16MB/s seems to be the limit here? BYTEA deserialization is very slow, and this could be a factor here. Have you checked that you are in fact I/O bound? You can speed things up by sending the data in binary, by passing approriate parameters to PQexecParams(). -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance