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From: paul socha <pawel.socha@gmail.com>
To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: update - which way quicker?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:55 +0200
Message-ID: <A826B099-A9BA-4CDF-A7BA-AAB0BC739E67@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B6FCF8.3090807@encs.concordia.ca>
References: <48B6FCF8.3090807@encs.concordia.ca>


On 2008-08-28, at 21:31, Emi Lu wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Tried to compare Table1 based on Table2
>
> . update table1.col = false
>   if table1.pk_cols not in table2.pk_cols
>
>
>
> For the following two ways, (2) always performs better than (1) right,
> and I need your inputs.
> ====================================================================== 
> ==
> (1) update table1
>     set col = false
>     where table1.pk_co1 || table1.pk_col2.... || table1.pk_colN
>
>     NOT IN
>
>     (select pk_co1 || pk_col2.... || pk_colN
>      from table2
>      )
>
> (2) ResultSet(rs) =
>     select pk_col1||pk_col2... || pk_colN
>     from table1
>     left join table2 using (pk_col1..., pk_colN)
>     where table2.pk_col1 is null
>
>     Then for each rs record, do:
>     update table1
>     set col = false
>     where col1||... colN in rs.value
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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