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* Why do the two queries below return different results?
@ 2003-07-16 20:52 Warren Little <wlittle@securitylending.com>
2003-07-20 04:54 ` Re: Why do the two queries below return different results? Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Warren Little @ 2003-07-16 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
Look at the following two queries.
select casepid, origpid
from virbcase
where date_trunc('day', origdt) >= '2003-07-01'
and date_trunc('day', origdt) <= '2003-07-31'
and origpid in (select pid from party where partyid in ('00339',
'00310',
'00320'))
and not exists (select pid from casecombo where casepid = secondpid)
select casepid, origpid
from virbcase
where date_trunc('day', origdt) >= '2003-07-01'
and date_trunc('day', origdt) <= '2003-07-31'
and origpid in (select pid from party where partyid in ('00339',
'00310',
'00320'))
and casepid not in (select secondpid from casecombo)
The second query is broken and I don't understand why.
Correlating the subquery as is done in the first query fixes it.
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* Re: Why do the two queries below return different results?
2003-07-16 20:52 Why do the two queries below return different results? Warren Little <wlittle@securitylending.com>
@ 2003-07-20 04:54 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2003-07-20 04:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Warren Little <wlittle@securitylending.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Warren Little <wlittle@securitylending.com> writes:
> Look at the following two queries.
> ...
> and not exists (select pid from casecombo where casepid = secondpid)
> ...
> and casepid not in (select secondpid from casecombo)
> The second query is broken and I don't understand why.
I'll bet there are some NULL values for secondpid in casecombo.
The behavior of NOT IN with NULLs is fairly unintuitive :-(
regards, tom lane
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