Amit, All: So we just retested this on 9.3b2. The performance is the same as 9.1 and 9.2; that is, progressively worse as the test cycles go on, and unacceptably slow compared to 8.4. Some issue introduced in 9.1 is causing BINDs to get progressively slower as the PARSEs BINDs get run repeatedly. Per earlier on this thread, that can bloat to 200X time required for a BIND, and it's definitely PostgreSQL-side. I'm trying to produce a test case which doesn't involve the user's application. However, hints on other things to analyze would be keen. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance