JDBC Overhead

It appears to me as if there is quite a bit of overhead with the
Postgres JDBC driver when compared with other JDBC drivers. This simple
piece of code shows me something very odd:

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ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT 1");
long execStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
rs = ps.executeQuery();
System.err.println ("Query executed in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() -
execStart) + "ms");
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Result of this code is:
Query executed in 57ms

But with duration logging enabled on the database side, I can see that
the database side processing time was less than 1 ms.
LOG: duration: 0.073 ms statement: EXECUTE <unnamed> [PREPARE:
SELECT 1]

When I run this same code against a mySQL or Sybase database, I get 1ms
execution time. Am I missing some bit of tuning that I can do with the
database or the JDBC driver to eliminate that 50+ms of latency?

I am running postgres 8.1.4 on solaris and I've tried all 3 JDBC
drivers. The java program is running on the same server as the database
so I don't believe there is any network latency involved.

Thanks!!

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Bob Damato
Cox Target Media
Internet Technology Manager
Largo, Florida

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