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From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: Exner, Peter <Exner@his.de>
Cc: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
Cc: SQL Postgresql List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to find entries missing in 2nd table?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:46:11 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <507847EF2B23D748BAC77799DA52D0EC6FD63F@mailbox.his.de>
References: <507847EF2B23D748BAC77799DA52D0EC6FD63F@mailbox.his.de>

On 7/12/06, Exner, Peter <Exner@his.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what about
>
> SELECT controller_id FROM control
> WHERE controller_id NOT IN
> (SELECT DISTINCT controller_id FROM datapack);


The DISTINCT is not necessary.  I have heard with Oracle that DISTINCT is a
huge performance problem.  Is that true on PostgreSQL also?

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   Aaron Bono
   Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
   http://www.aranya.com
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