Re: Very slow bytea extraction

["msmbarabino(at)virgilio(dot)it" <msmbarabino(at)virgilio(dot)it>]

>In psql the trick is to use unaligned display mode, else psql itself
>eats a whole lot of time trying to nicely format those 250KB rows:

Even using unaligned display mode (\a) it still takes more than 1 
minute

>

>I surmise that your problem is likewise on the client side, 
but you
>weren't very specific about what client code you were using.  
Look
>for bottlenecks associated with processing of very wide rows...

Every client I use is affected by the problem.
The main client is a 
java program that connects to the db through jdbc. Even writing a 
simple program that only performs a select query doesn't solve the 
problem.
A select query issued using pgAdmin takes the same time and so 
does the show data command in pgAdmin

Maybe this is a problem related 
to the win32 version of postgres (I haven't tried to run this db under 
linux)

Regards

Massimo