Re: Automatic optimization of IN clauses via INNER JOIN

Yes, I see the one note that running Analyze can improve the performance.

But in our testing under the same optimization and conditions INNER JOIN is significantly outperforming IN.

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Lane tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us

Thomas Hamilton <thomashamilton76(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Apparently the latest version of MySQL has solved this problem: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/28/why-large-in-clauses-are-problematic/
> But I am running PostgreSQL v8.3 and am observing generally that SELECT ... WHERE ... IN (a, b, c, ...) is much slower than SELECT ... INNER JOIN (SELECT a UNION ALL SELECT b UNION ALL SELECT c ...)

> Why doesn't the optimizer automatically transform IN clauses to INNER JOINs in this fashion?

Did you read all the comments on that three-year-old article?

            regards, tom lane