> Do you suggest if I remove all the data files from /data/base folder > of standby and again rebuild using rsync from primary ? do you see > any issues there.? This is just to rule out any fragmentation on > standby side. The EXPLAIN really should not do much I/O. I doubt it has anything to do with fragmentation, so I doubt this is going to help. Actually I was referring to this in the context of addressing main underlying performance issue, not EXPLAIN. Sorry, I may not have communicated it correctly. Even strance does not seem to be installed. The filesytem type it shows to me ext3. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Hot-Standby-performance-issue-tp5774673p5775361.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance