Re: Non Matching Records in Two Tables

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:08 -0800, chester c young wrote:

> > Here is my query SQL:
> >
> > SELECT key100 FROM ncccr10
> > WHERE ncccr10.key100 NOT IN (SELECT key100 FROM ncccr9);
> >
> > It is is running after 30 minutes. Here is the query plan:
> >
>
> I would try an outer join:
>
> select a.key100
> from ncccr10 a
> left join ncccr9 b on( key100 )
> where b.key100 is null;
>
> also (hate to be obvious) have you analyzed lately?
>
>
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Yes, I did a VACUUM ANALYZE on the entire database before running this
query. Also, I get an error with your suggestion:

csalgorithm=# SELECT a.key100 FROM ncccr10 a
csalgorithm-# LEFT JOIN ncccr9 b ON(a.key100)
csalgorithm-# WHERE b.key100 IS Null;
ERROR: argument of JOIN/ON must be type boolean, not type character