Hi, I was testing MySQL and PgSQL performances on my home box (amd athlon 64 3000, 1gig ddr ram, sata I hdd, win xp (x86)), select and insert times seeemed identical with innoDB. But when i try to query both using php, there's a huge difference even for a funny query like "select 1" Here's the code: <?php $mtime = microtime(true); $pdo = new PDO('pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=test', "testacc", "pw"); for ($i = 0; $i < 10000; $i++) { $result = $pdo->query("Select "+$i); } echo microtime(true) - $mtime; echo "<br>"; $mtime = microtime(true); $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', "testacc", "pw"); for ($i = 0; $i < 10000; $i++) { $result = $pdo->query("Select "+$i); } echo microtime(true) - $mtime; echo "<br>"; ?> output is: 2.7696590423584 0.89393591880798 Nearly 3 times slower even w/o any table queries. But i could not reproduce this by writing stored procs on both which selects 0-10000 in a loop to a variable. results were almost same. (I tried pg_ and mysqli_ functions too, results were not too different) Is it mysql client libraries performs better? Or postgre stored procs are 3x faster? I cannot understand, since there is not even an io operation or any query planning stuff, what is the cause of this? Thanks.