Sumeet Shukla <sumeet.k.shukla@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, but when I actually execute the query in pgAdmin3, it takes exactly > the same time of 19.5 secs. pgAdmin is well known to be horribly inefficient at displaying large query results (and 121788 rows qualifies as "large" for this purpose, I believe). The circa-tenth-of-a-second savings on the server side is getting swamped by client-side processing. It's possible that pgAdmin4 has improved matters in this area. 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