At 16:45 +0200 on 8/9/98, andreas.fredriksson@pacer.se wrote:
> Are there any alternate methods of solving this? I don't think it's
> possible to write this kind of query using a multi-JOIN?
Why not? So long as the query is "in", and not "not in"?
Should be something like:
SELECT DISTINCT url,title
FROM idx_files, idx_ref, idx_words
WHERE idx_files.id = idx_ref.file_id
AND idx_ref.word_id = idx_words.id
AND (idx_words.word = 'search term 1' OR .. );
In any case, are there indices on the appropriate fields?
If the innermost query is supposed to return only one tuple, you should use
"=" rather than IN, although I don't know how much that adds. The optimizer
probably has an easier time with "=" than with IN.
Herouth
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