Re: a LEFT JOIN problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas
Subject Re: a LEFT JOIN problem
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In response to Re: a LEFT JOIN problem  (Thomas <iamkenzo@gmail.com>)
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I have found a trick to fool the system: I use an ORDER BY
response_code 0 ASC LIMIT 1

As unpaid orders receive a response_code > 0, then necessarily the
first record has response_code of 0.

However if more and more orders come into the equation, this means
PgSQL will have to process more records, how is it optimized? I guess
PgSQL will have to find all the records, than order them by
response_code ASC, and then pick the first one.

This is probably not a good practice? Should I go for 2 distinct queries?

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