Re: rewrite in to exists? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: rewrite in to exists?
Date
Msg-id 08cd01c37da5$04cd5ff0$2800a8c0@mars
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In response to rewrite in to exists?  (LN Cisneros <lnsea@earthlink.net>)
Responses Re: rewrite in to exists?
List pgsql-performance
> I'm on 7.3.4 and this query gets horrible performance.  Is there a way to
rewrite it with an exists or some way to get better performance?
>
> select code, id, name, date_of_service
>   from tbl
> where date_of_service in
>       (select date_of_service
>          from tbl
>         where xxx >= '29800'
>           and xxx <= '29909'
>           and code = 'XX')
>   and client_code = 'XX'
> order by  id, date_of_service;

????

Why can't you just go:

select code, id, name, date_of_service from tbl where xxx <= 29800 and xx >=
29909 and code='XX' and client_code='XX' order by id, date_of_service;

Or use a between clause is nice:

select code, id, name, date_of_service from tbl where xxx between 29800 and
29909 and code='XX' and client_code='XX' order by id, date_of_service;

But seriously - your query above is referencing 'tbl' twice - is that
correct, or is the tbl in the subselect supposed to be something different?

Chris


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