On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> wrote:
> Table "public.intermineobject"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
> object | text |
> id | integer | not null
> class | text |
> Indexes:
> "intermineobject_pkey" UNIQUE, btree (id)
>
> mnw21-modmine-r13features-copy=# explain select * from project where id NOT
> IN (SELECT id FROM intermineobject);
>
> try using join instead of 'not in'..
>
> select p.* from project p left join intermineobject i on i.id=p.id where i.id is null;
Yes, that does work, but only because id is NOT NULL. I thought Postgres
8.4 had had a load of these join types unified to make it less important
how the query is written?
Matthew
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