Re: Automatic optimization of IN clauses via INNER JOIN

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2009/12/18 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/12/18 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2009/12/18 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> NOT IN is the only that really kills you as far as optimization is
>>>> concerned.  IN can be transformed to a join.  NOT IN forces a NOT
>>>> (subplan)-type plan, which bites - hard.
>>>
>>> in a well designed database (read: not abusing NULLs) - it can be done
>>> with joins too.
>>
>> But not by PostgreSQL, or so I believe.
>
> using left join ?

If at least one column in the subselect is strict, you can rewrite it
that way yourself, but the optimizer won't do it. I wish it did, but I
don't wish it badly enough to have written the code myself, and
apparently neither does anyone else.

...Robert

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