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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Very large IN-clause is slow, but how to rewrite it?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:56:31 -0500
Message-ID: <7794.1172422591@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070225123913.GA17124@furbychan.cocan.org>
References: <20070225123913.GA17124@furbychan.cocan.org>

Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> writes:
> I've been profiling a PG database / mix of applications and found that
> one statement which takes a very long time to execute is:

PG 8.2 does better with long IN-lists ... although if the list is so
long as to be fetching a significant fraction of the table, you'll still
have problems.  In that case I'd advise putting the values into a temp
table, ANALYZEing same, and doing "WHERE foo IN (SELECT x FROM tmp_table)".

			regards, tom lane



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