From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: How to do A union (B - ( A intersect B )) or sort of :-) |
Date: | 2010-11-04 20:43:41 |
Message-ID: | 587.1288903421@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Sorry for the subject, but I knew no words to describe it better.
> I will try to explain
> First a more general question: is there any clever way to do two
> selects A and B and then return the result
> A union ( B \ (A intersect B)) ( \ is "set subtraction")
Ummm ... isn't that just a UNION? Anyway, SQL's features for this
sort of thing are described here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-union.html
> Any ideas besides writing the explicit queries? I guess one has to
> lock the table to get the same result on both selects unless one can
> cache the result of A and B so you don't run it twice?
Both arms of a UNION or similar query would be reading the table with
the same snapshot, so there wouldn't be any need for a lock to get
consistent results. You may also need to spend some time reading
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/mvcc.html
regards, tom lane
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