Another odd thing is when I tried turning off merge joins on the XP desktop It took 32 secs to run compared to the 6 secs it was taking. On the Linux (4proc box) it is now running in 3 secs with the mergejoins turned off.
Unfortunately it takes over 2 minutes to actually return the 160,000+ rows. I am guessing that is either network (I have gig cards on a LAN) or perhaps the ODBC driver (using PGADMIN III to do the select). I tried to run on psql on the server but it was putting it out to more. If I do it and use > test.txt will it run it all out so I can get a time? Does it display the time anywhere like in pgadminIII? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly