On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Steven Flatt wrote: > (A) LEFT JOIN (B) ON col WHERE B.col IS NULL > > These queries are much slower on 8.2 than on 8.1 for what looks like the > reason outlined above. I have rewritten a few key queries to be of the > equivalent form: > > (A) WHERE col NOT IN (SELECT col FROM (B)) At least those _can_ be rewritten into a sane form. I have an application with a large FULL OUTER JOIN, where _both_ sides can return NULLs. (It's basically a diff between a "current" and a "wanted" state.) It performs reasonably well under both 8.1 and 8.2, though. Fourteen-table join or so :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
