Is not equal to query...

From: James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Is not equal to query...
Date: 2011-06-08 21:57:34
Message-ID: BANLkTikpqm1S7O+YQDuHD4P-o-FoTBr6JQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi everyone,

A bit of help please. This query works for me, and gives me 332,000
rows of records out of my table of 400,000 rows. It takes about a
minute to run.

SELECT vehicle.*
FROM vehicle, incidents
WHERE incidents.key = vehicle.incident_link;

Would I would like to do however, is remove the data from this table
that does not match the above query. So to start with, I thought that
I'd better try and identify this data using the query below. You'll
note I have simply changed the '=' for '!=' instead.

SELECT vehicle.*
FROM vehicle, incidents
WHERE incidents.key != vehicle.incident_link;

However when I run this query, after about 10-15 minutes, I still
don't have a result. I don't really understand why not.

Cheers as always.

James

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