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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:12:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>
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Subject: Re: count(*), EXISTS, indexes
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Itai Zukerman wrote:

> >   CREATE TABLE A (x int PRIMARY KEY, real v);
> >   CREATE TABLE B (x int);
> >
> > I'd like to calculate:
> >
> >   SELECT sum(v) FROM A WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM B WHERE A.x=B.x);
>
> This seems to be a reasonably-performing workaround:
>
>   SELECT DISTINCT x INTO TEMP C FROM A,B WHERE A.x=B.x;
>   SELECT sum(v) FROM A,C WHERE A.x=C.x;

Hmm, given that, would something like:

select sum(v) from
 (select distinct on(x) x,v from a,b where a.x=b.x) as foo;

work?