If I may, I got an instance once, where table with bytea field was pretty slow. Turned out, that queries modified everything apart from bytea bit. moving it to separate table actually helped performance. But that only will happen providing that you have the bytea/text/whatever that won't change, once inserted. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general