On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:08:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hmm, what have you got work_mem set to? The first one would likely
> have been a lot faster if it had hashed the subplan; which I'd have
> thought would happen with only 80K rows in the subplan result,
> except it didn't.
work_mem = 1024kB
The machine has 48 MB total RAM and is a Xen host.
> The queries are in fact not exactly equivalent, because EXCEPT
> involves some duplicate-elimination behavior that won't happen
> in the NOT IN formulation. So I don't apologize for your having
> gotten different plans.
But if use EXCEPT ALL?
> Another issue is that the NOT IN will probably not do what you
> expected if the subquery yields any NULLs.
In this specific query I think it is not possible for the subquery to
have NULLs, because its an INNER JOIN USING (the_only_column_in_the
_result, some_other_column_also). If any "uid" column of any row would
have been NULL, it wouldn't appear in that INNER JOIN, no?
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