On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 21:28, Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com> wrote: > > Select a.id, a.name, b.id, b.name from a_large_table a, definitive b where (a.id, b.name) not in > (select b.id, b.name from definitive b) > > is very slow. > > Is there a faster way to do so?
It depends on what your exact requirements are for the NULL handling that NOT IN provides. Do you need the query to return 0 rows if b.id and b.name are null? This question is moot if none of the columns or either table allow NULLs.
If you don't require that, then you'll give the planner more flexibility to choose a more efficient plan if you use NOT EXISTS instead.
David
I would like to try out an example of NOT EXISTS way and see how the replacement works.
