I'm gonna take a scientific wild-assed guess that the real issue here is caching, or more specifically, lack thereof when you first start up your copy of the db. [Scot Kreienkamp] That is definitely one of the problems. No way to help that that I'm aware of. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general