Re: Very slow bytea extraction

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

>
>Well, that eliminates the theory that you've got a lot of dead 
tuples
>slowing it down.  I come back to the conclusion that it's 
probably a
>client-side problem.  Have you tried watching with "top" or 
similar tool
>to check which process is eating all the time?
>

No, 
actually I haven't yet.
I have noticed that during the time the query 
executes there is neither so much CPU load nor network (communication 
with db) load. The client seems to hang, then after a minute or so the 
query returns data.
I also thought this problem could be related to db 
encoding but changing it didn't help at all.
If it's a client-related 
problem, I can't understand why such different clients behave the same 
way

Regards

Massimo