>If you look at the "actual time" it's completing very quickly indeed. 
So 
>- it must be something to do with either:
>1. Fetching/formatting 
the data
>>2. Transferring the data to the client.

I do agree.

>What 
happens if you only select half the rows? Does the time to run the 
>select halve?

Yes, it does.
Using pgAdmin, the time to get all 36 
rows is about 67500ms while it's 24235ms to get only 18 rows.

Massimo


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