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From: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index Usage using IN
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:22:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1138825370.8376.5.camel@toonses.gghcwest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E1164B.7020104@telogis.com>
References: <43E1164B.7020104@telogis.com>

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 09:12 +1300, Ralph Mason wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 tables both have an index on ID (both ID columns are an oid).
> 
> I want to find only only rows in one and not the other.
> 
> Select ID from TableA where ID not IN ( Select ID from Table B)

Have you considered this:

SELECT ID from TableA EXCEPT Select ID from Table B

?

-jwb




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