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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: msmbarabino@virgilio.it <msmbarabino@virgilio.it>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Very slow bytea data extraction
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:46:14 +0000
Message-ID: <45DEC5F6.4000101@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110ee1452b5.msmbarabino@virgilio.it>
References: <110ee1452b5.msmbarabino@virgilio.it>

msmbarabino@virgilio.it wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using Postgresql 8.2.3 on a Windows XP system.
> 
> I need to 
> write and retrieve bytea data from a table.
> The problem is that, while 
> data insertion is quite fast, bytea extraction is very slow.
> I'm trying 
> to store a 250KB image into the bytea field.
> A simple select query on a 
> 36-row table takes more than one minute to execute.

Where is the problem?

Is it in executing the query (what does EXPLAIN ANALYSE show)?
Is it in fetching/formatting the data (what does the equivalent COUNT(*) 
show)?
How are you accessing the database: odbc,jdbc,other?
Does it do this with psql too?

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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