Re: IN surpasses NOT EXISTS in 7.4RC2 ??

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IN surpasses NOT EXISTS in 7.4RC2 ??
Date: 2003-11-13 14:56:57
Message-ID: 200311131456.hADEuv409079@candle.pha.pa.us
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> NOT EXISTS is taking almost double time than NOT IN .
> I know IN has been optimised in 7.4 but is anything
> wrong with the NOT EXISTS?
>
> I have vaccumed , analyze and run the query many times
> still not in is faster than exists :>

Seems fine. In 7.4, NOT IN will often be faster that NOT EXISTS. NOT
EXISTS didn't change --- there are restrictions on how far we can
optimize NOT EXISTS. NOT IN has just become much faster in 7.4.

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