Re: Comparative performance

>   Total runtime: 16.000 ms

    Even though this query isn't that optimized, it's still only 16
milliseconds.
    Why does it take this long for PHP to get the results ?

    Can you try pg_query'ing this exact same query, FROM PHP, and timing it
with getmicrotime() ?

    You can even do an EXPLAIN ANALYZE from pg_query and display the results
in your webpage, to check how long the query takes on the server.

    You can also try it on a Linux box.

    This smells like a TCP communication problem.