On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:51, Glen Parker <glenebob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why would very large text values effect the speed of a seq scan that > does not actually evaluate those values? Seq scan reads the whole table. The limiting factor is the size of the table on disk. -- "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson