Re: tricky query

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: John A Meinel <john(at)arbash-meinel(dot)com>, Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>
Subject: Re: tricky query
Date: 2005-06-28 19:31:23
Message-ID: 20050628193123.GA12571@wolff.to
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:02:09 -0400,
Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Confirmed. Hats off to you, the above some really wicked querying.
> IIRC I posted the same question several months ago with no response and
> had given up on it. I think your solution (smallest X1 not in X) is a
> good candidate for general bits, so I'm passing this to varlena for
> review :)
>
> SELECT t1.id+1 as id_new FROM id_test t1
> WHERE NOT EXISTS
> (SELECT t2.id FROM id_test t2 WHERE t2.id = t1.id+1)
> ORDER BY t1.id LIMIT 1;

You need to rework this to check to see if row '1' is missing. The
above returns the start of the first gap after the first row that
isn't missing.

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