Re: [SQL] comparing 2 tables. . .

Well, I guess officially you're supposed to be able to decode an EXPLAIN
of each statement but I'm not quite that savvy (yet).

With regards to this specific examples, I seem to remember a number of
previous postings that say that (NOT) EXISTS type statements are much
faster that (NOT) IN (SELECT...) type statements (because that kind of
sub-select is currently sub-optimally implemented in PG).

regards,

Stuart.

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Albert REINER wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 03:32:51PM +0100, Stuart Rison wrote:
> ...
> > Try:
> > 
> > SELECT tab1.pkey FROM  tab1 WHERE tab1.pkey NOT IN (SELECT
> > tab2.pkey FROM  tab2.pkey);
> > 
> > or else (faster):
> > 
> > SELECT tab1.pkey FROM  tab1 WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM
> >  tab2 WHERE tab1.pkey=tab2.pkey);
> 
> Maybe this is trivial, but...
> 
> Is there a simple way to see that/why the last query is faster?
> 
> Albert.
> 
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