Andras Fabian <Fabian@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now I ask, whats going on here ???? Why is COPY via STDOUT so much slower on out new machine? Something weird about the network stack on the new machine, maybe. Have you compared the transfer speeds for Unix-socket and TCP connections? On a Red Hat box I would try using oprofile to see where the bottleneck is ... don't know if that's available for Ubuntu. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general