Hi,
(this is not a real world problem, just something I'm playing around with).
Lately I had some queries of the form:
select t.* from some_table t where t.id not in (select some_id from some_other_table);
I could improve the performance of them drastically by changing the NOT NULL into an outer join:
select t.* from some_table t left join some_other_table ot on ot.id = t.id where ot.id is null;
Now I was wondering if a DELETE statement could be rewritten with the same "strategy":
Something like:
delete from some_table where id not in (select min(id) from some_table
groupby col1, col2 having count(*) > 1);
(It's the usual - at least for me - "get rid of duplicates" statement)
The DELETE .. USING seems to only allow inner joins because it requires the join to be done in the WHERE clause.
So I can't think of a way to turn that NOT IN from the DELETE into an outer join with a derived table.
Am I right that this kind of transformation is not possible or am I missing something?
Regards
Thomas
