>> select * from table order by date limit 25 offset 0
> Do you have an index on the date column? Can you post an EXPLAIN > ANALYZE for the slow query?
Wow! Now that I look again there are actually 2 date fields. One is indexed and one is not. Order by was done on the column without index. Using the indexed column turn a seq scan into index scan and the query performance is totally fine now.
It would still be helpful if select count(*) can perform well.
