| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | mmurrain(at)dbdes(dot)com |
| Cc: | "Thomas F(dot)O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>, CHRIS HOOVER <CHRIS(dot)HOOVER(at)companiongroup(dot)com>, sad(at)bankir(dot)ru, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: help on a query |
| Date: | 2004-10-09 03:17:38 |
| Message-ID: | 87sm8o4m25.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Michelle Murrain <tech(at)murrain(dot)net> writes:
> The OUTER JOIN version is quite a bit more efficient (by an order of magnitude)
> than the option with WHERE NOT EXISTS subquery.
This is going to be heavily dependent on the version of postgres. IN/NOT IN
execution has improved a lot in 7.4 and later. If you're still on 7.3 then the
outer join will be better. But in 7.4 I would actually expect the NOT IN or
the NOT EXISTS to be faster.
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greg
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