Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?
Date: 2001-06-13 15:50:26
Message-ID: 26668.992447426@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Are we anywhere with optimizing IN to EXISTS? I didn't think there was
> any work being done in that area.

I don't think it's that hard to do within the outer-join mechanism,
except for this little issue about NULLs. The planner already makes
querytree alterations of comparable complexity, to deal with views and
subselects...

regards, tom lane

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