Re: [GENERAL] Simulating an outer join

> Can somebody comment on using EXISTS vs. IN in a subselect?  I have
> some statements with subselects, and I'd like to understand the
> ramifications of choosing EXISTS or IN.

We have some brain-damaged code that is faster with EXISTS than IN.
With IN, the subquery is evaluated and the result put in a temp
relation.  Every test for IN sequentially scans the subquery result
looking for a match.  EXISTS uses an index on the subquery result. Not
sure why we can't just fix this, but I don't understand enough to know
the reason.  People who do understand say there is no good solution
until we redesign the query tree in 7.1.

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