Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?
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Msg-id 20010613092102.A4884@feivel.credativ.de
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In response to Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Re: Re: Does PostgreSQL support EXISTS?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:23:15PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> select x from a where v in (select v from b)
> select x from a where exists (select 1 from b where a.v = b.v)

The latter should be faster than the former on every relational database
system.

Michael
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