Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:52:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: krystoffff <proghome@silesky.com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to optimize this query ?
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On 12 Aug 2003, krystoffff wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have to optmize this query, because it takes a while to run (about
> 30s)
>
> Here are the tables (with the keys):
>  affiliate_lockout  (6 rows)  (member_id, affiliate_id)
>  lead   (4490 rows)           (id, ...)
>  member  (6 rows)             (id, ...)
>  member_exclusion (3 rows)    (member_id, member_id_to_exclude)
>  purchase (10000 rows)        (lead_id, member_id, ...)
>

I think you can possibly get better results in 7.3 and earlier
by using NOT EXISTS.

> Here is the query:
> SELECT *
> FROM lead
> WHERE
> (exclusive IS NULL OR (exclusive = 0 AND nb_purchases < 3)) AND
>

NOT EXISTS (
 select lead_id from
  purchase where lead_id=lead.id
  and member_id=21101)

> id NOT IN (
> SELECT lead_id
> FROM purchase
> WHERE member_id = 21101

AND NOT EXISTS (
 select * from affiliate_lockout
 WHERE member_id=21101 and
  affiliate_locked_id=lead.affiliate_id)

> ) AND affiliate_id NOT
> IN (
>
> SELECT affiliate_locked_id
> FROM affiliate_lockout
> WHERE member_id = 21101
> ) AND id NOT
> IN (
>
> SELECT lead_id
> FROM purchase
> INNER JOIN member_exclusion
> WHERE purchase.member_id = member_exclusion.member_id_to_exclude AND
> purchase.member_id = 21101

Doesn't this condition end up giving you a subset of the rows in the first
one?