Let me change my question to this perhaps it would be clearer why writing data result of select statment from PG server to file on disk using copy statement is much faster than getting same data through PGAdmin via libpg on the same PC on the same system on the same connection (localhost) ? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Copy-command-Faster-than-original-select-tp5836886p5836933.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