2009/12/18 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryz...@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> NOT IN is the only that really kills you as far as optimization is
>> concerned.  IN can be transformed to a join.  NOT IN forces a NOT
>> (subplan)-type plan, which bites - hard.
>
> in a well designed database (read: not abusing NULLs) - it can be done
> with joins too.

But not by PostgreSQL, or so I believe.

...Robert

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