Re: Simple way to get missing number

Aha, generate_series, I got it. Thank you very much!!

I also tried left join, it seems that left join explain analyze returns
faster comparing with except:

select num as missing
from generate_series(5000, 22323) t(num)
left join t1 on (t.num = t1.id)
where t1.id is null
limit 10;

Emi

On 04/24/2012 10:31 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:15:26AM -0400, Emi Lu wrote:
>> May I know is there a simple sql command which could return missing
>> numbers please?
>> For example,
>> t1(id integer)
>> values= 1, 2, 3 .... 5000000
>> select miss_num(id)
>> from t1 ;
>
> select generate_series( (select min(id) from t1), (select max(id) from
> t1))
> except
> select id from t1;
>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz
>

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