Sorry, I didn'tpoint it out because an earlier post included the query with
documentation - that post got lost... or at least *I* can't see it.
The other half of the union renders the facilities that DO have addresses,
and because of the performance problem (which I have finally sorted out by
creating indexes which are more explicit - my oversight, really!)
The original query was a slightly more complex outer join, which I then
decomposed to an explicit union with two halves - one half handling the
explicit "facility_address_id is null" portion, the other half handling the
"is not null" portion (implicitly because of the normal join between
facility and facility_address).
I hadn't considered the "not exists" option - it's obvious when you look at
the sub-query by itself, but didn't strike me before I broke it out of the
union and you mentioned it. I was just under th eimpression that getting
this sub-query to work would have produced the most clear, straightforward
ANALYZE results.
Carlo
"Shaun Thomas" <sthomas@leapfrogonline.com> wrote in message
news:200610161728.43193.sthomas@leapfrogonline.com...
> On Monday 16 October 2006 16:37, Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
>
>> The facility_address_id is null statement is necessary, as this is a
>> sub-query from a union clause and I want to optimise the query with
>> the original logic intact. The value is not hard coded to true but
>> rather to null.
>
> Heh, you neglect to mention that this query is discovering faculty who
> do *not* have an address entry, which makes the "is null" a major
> necessity. With that, how did a "not exists (blabla faculty_address
> blabla)" subquery to get the same effect treat you? How about an "IN
> (blabla LIMIT 1)" ?
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