Rainer Bauer <usenet(at)munnin(dot)com> writes:
> one of my customers installed Postgres on a public server to access the data
> from several places. The problem is that it takes _ages_ to transfer data from
> the database to the client app. At first I suspected a problem with the ODBC
> driver and my application, but using pgAdminIII 1.6.3.6112 (on Windows XP)
> gives the same result.
I seem to recall that we've seen similar reports before, always
involving Windows :-(. Check whether you have any nonstandard
components hooking into the network stack on that machine.
regards, tom lane