Re: <>(not equal to) in where clause can use index - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Nicklas Avén
Subject Re: <>(not equal to) in where clause can use index
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Msg-id 1297156506.8940.3.camel@ubuntu-nav
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In response to <>(not equal to) in where clause can use index  (AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
One way to get around the problem is often to do a left or right join,
use = instead of <> , and catch the rows with null in id field,
something like:

SELECT a.* from
table a LEFT JOIN tableb b on a.testfld=b.testfld
WHERE b.id is null;

This one will use indexes on testflda and testfldb an

HTH

/Nicklas

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 15:09 +0600, AI Rumman wrote:
> Is it possible to add some operator class in Postgresql 9 so that
> <>(not equal to) in where clause can use index?
>
> If yes how?
>
> Any idea please.



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