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From Thomas T. Veldhouse
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Msg-id 003501c100b4$4ea2cd10$3028680a@tgt.com
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In response to RE:  ("tamsin" <tg_mail@bryncadfan.co.uk>)
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select pm.*
from purchasemaster pm
  inner join itemmaster im
    on pm.transactionid = im.transactionid
where im.itempriority = 2
 
Try this instead.
 
Make sure the appropriate indexes (on pm.transactionid, im.transactionid and im.itempriority) exist if the tables are of any appreciable size. 
 
Tom Veldhouse
 
----- Original Message -----
From: tamsin
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL]

i think performance is better in postgres if you rewrite this sort of query as:
 
select * from purchasemaster where exists (select 1 from itemmaster where itempriority = 2 and transactionid = purchasemaster.transactionid)
 
hope this helps,
tamsin
 
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Kapil Tilwani
Sent: 28 May 2001 12:27
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL]

Hi,
 
I have two tables purchasemaster (Master) and ItemMaster (child) linked through TransactionID
 
I have a query like
select * from purchasemaster where transactionid in (select transactionid from itemmaster where itempriority = 2)
 
****I need this query for MS-Access, MS-SQL and Postgres.  Because the application is supposed to be such that for upto 2-3 users, the application would be running on MS-Access or MSDE, while for heavier databases i.e., greater than 4 , the ideal database would be Postgres
 
Only the problem is ...  (correct me if i am wrong, PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE) that for each tuple in purchasemaster the sub-query is re-evaluated (True or False????).  What I am looking at is whether it is possible to execute the query in the sub-query just once, get its value as in "(1,2,5,23,7,90)", etc. in place of the sub-query and accordingly, execute the main query.
 
Thank you,
Kapil

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