Re: not in(subselect) in 8.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: not in(subselect) in 8.4
Date: 2009-02-20 15:33:53
Message-ID: 8918.1235144033@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I mean query like:
> select id from foo where id not in ( select id from bar);
> into:
> select f.id from foo f left join bar b on f.id=b.id where b.id is null;

Postgres does not do that, because they don't mean the same thing ---
the behavior for NULLs in bar.id is different.

8.4 does understand that NOT EXISTS is an antijoin, though.

regards, tom lane

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