It's not the program or Java. The same program takes about 20 seconds with Firebird and the exactly same data.
Hm, that's still very slow (it should do it in a couple seconds like my PC does... maybe the problem is common to postgres and firebird ?)
Try eliminating disk IO by writing a set returning function which returns 1000000 rows, something simple like just a sequence number and a text value... if this is slow too... i don't know... do you have an antivirus or zonealarm or something ?
Have you tried connecting from another machine ?
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