From: Jinn Koriech <lists@idealint.co.uk>
To: PostgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: negative queries puzzle
Date: 31 Jul 2002 20:15:36 +0100
Message-ID: <1028142936.16285.44.camel@morph.magiclamp.2y.net> (raw)
hi all,
here's a query i've never been able to improve:
i have an old data set and a new data set - in this case uk postcodes
with eastings and northings. i want to extract the new and changed
postcodes from the new set. to get the changed entries i use a join and
it works okay:
SELECT n.postcode, n.easting, n.northing FROM v_postcode_new n,
v_postcode_old o WHERE n.postcode = o.postcode AND (n.easting <>
o.lattitude OR n.northing <> o.longitude);
but then to get the entirely new items out i use a sub query which takes
for ever
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM v_postcode_new WHERE postcode NOT IN ( SELECT
postcode FROM v_postcode_old ) ORDER BY postcode ASC;
does anyone know of a quicker way to accomplish this? i guess there
must be some cleaver way around it, but it's beyond me.
thanks,
jinn
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