Dear All, I have an application where some simple data extracted from some source files is inserted into a PostgreSQL database. The application uses Takusen and is compiled with GHC 6.8.3. Some (59 in the test data) of the selects take on average 460ms each for a total time for this sample run of 30s. I prepare one select statement at the beginning of the run into which I then bind the specific values for every one of the selects. It does not seem to make a difference whether I do this or whether I just use a new statement for every select. For comparison, I have collected the SQL statements in a file with PREPARE ... and DEALLOCATE for _every_ select and then run this file through psql. This takes 2s! During the run of the GHC-compiled executable the cpu load goes up. In top I see %CPU of above 72%. Any ideas that might enlighten are welcome. Best regards, Marko