Re: [PERFORM] Hypothetical suggestions for planner, indexing improvement

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jim(at)nasby(dot)net
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Hypothetical suggestions for planner, indexing improvement
Date: 2003-05-06 13:45:07
Message-ID: 24779.1052228707@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
> It would be nice to add support for multi-column IN..
> WHERE (a, b, c) IN (SELECT a, b, c ...)

RTFM...

> BTW, does postgresql handle IN and EXISTS differently?

Yes.

> Theoretically if the optimizer was good enough you could transform one
> to the other and not worry about it.

No. They have different responses to NULLs in the subselect result.

regards, tom lane

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