Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > Gregory Stark <st...@enterprisedb.com> writes: >> I think Postgres can't do better because there could be a NULL in the >> subquery. If there's a NULL in the subquery then no record would match. > > Yeah. NOT IN does not have the right semantics to become an antijoin.
If we noticed that the columns in the subquery are all guaranteed to be not null could we do it then? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
