Tom Lane wrote:
> Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com> writes:
> > I tried the following query :
>
> > select * from comuni where nome in (
> > select nome from comuni group by nome having 1 < count(nome)
> > );
>
> > on the above table populated with 8342 rows, PostgreSQL begins searching
> > and I wait for hours without any result.
>
> I'd expect that to be pretty slow, since it's going to execute the inner
> select for every tuple examined by the outer select. Shouldn't be any
> worse than 6.5 though. IN (sub-SELECT) has always been slow.
>
>
In v7.0 this query takes more than 50min to execute, it doesn't work on
v6.5...
select * from comuni where nome in ( select nome from comuni group by nome having count(nome) > 1 );
real 50m25.033s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.000s
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Jose' Soares
Bologna, Italy Jose@sferacarta.com
