Sabio - PSQL wrote:
> How can I improve speed on my queries. For example this query takes
> one day executing itself and it has not finalized !!!
> "create table tmp_partes as select * from partes where identificacion
> not in (select cedula from sujetos)"
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> partes have 1888000 rows, an index on identificacion
> sujetos have 5500000 rows, an index on cedula
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try create table tmp_partes as select * from partes where not exists
(select cedula from sujetos where cedula = partes.identificacion);
The "not in (subselect)" is very slow in postgresql.
HTH,
chris
