Re: Too slow

WITH: select * from partes where cedula not in (select cedula from sujetos)
Seq Scan on partes (cost=0.00..168063925339.69 rows=953831 width=109)
Filter: (NOT (subplan))
SubPlan
-> Seq Scan on sujetos (cost=0.00..162348.43 rows=5540143 width=15)

WITH: select * from partes where not exists (select cedula from sujetos
where cedula=partes.cedula)
Seq Scan on partes (cost=0.00..7373076.94 rows=953831 width=109)
Filter: (NOT (subplan))
SubPlan
-> Index Scan using sujetos_pkey on sujetos (cost=0.00..3.84
rows=1 width=15)
Index Cond: ((cedula)::text = ($0)::text)

Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:

> Please post the results of that query as run through EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
>
> Also, I'm going to reply to this on pgsql-performance, which is
> probably where it better belongs.
>
> -tfo
>
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> Thomas F. O'Connell
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> On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Sabio - PSQL wrote:
>
>> How can I improve speed on my queries. For example this query takes
>> one day executing itself and it has not finalized !!!
>> "create table tmp_partes as select * from partes where identificacion
>> not in (select cedula from sujetos)"
>>
>> partes have 1888000 rows, an index on identificacion
>> sujetos have 5500000 rows, an index on cedula
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