You could issue one query containing a select uuid FROM MDM.KEYWORDS_INFO WHERE KEYWORDS_ID in (xy) where xy is a large comma separated list of your values. Best Regards / Viele Grüße Sebastian Hennebrueder ----- http://www.laliluna.de * Tutorials for JSP, JavaServer Faces, Struts, Hibernate and EJB * Seminars and Education at reasonable prices * Get professional support and consulting for these technologies Johannes Bühler schrieb: > Hi, > I have a java.util.List of values (10000) which i wanted to use for a > query in the where clause of an simple select statement. iterating > over the list and and use an prepared Statement is quite slow. Is > there a more efficient way to execute such a query. Thanks for any > help. Johannes > ..... > List ids = new ArrayList(); > > .... List is filled with 10000 values ... > > List uuids = new ArrayList(); > PreparedStatement pstat = db.prepareStatement("SELECT UUID FROM > MDM.KEYWORDS_INFO WHERE KEYWORDS_ID = ?"); for (Iterator iter = > ids.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { String id = (String) iter.next(); > pstat.setString(1, id); > rs = pstat.executeQuery(); > if (rs.next()) { > uuids.add(rs.getString(1)); > } > rs.close(); > } > ... > > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > > > >