Re: Allowing NOT IN to use ANTI joins

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allowing NOT IN to use ANTI joins
Date: 2014-07-11 15:04:06
Message-ID: 3062.1405091046@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hm ... actually, there might be a better answer: what about transforming
>> WHERE (x,y) NOT IN (SELECT provably-not-null-values FROM ...)
>> to
>> WHERE <antijoin condition> AND x IS NOT NULL AND y IS NOT NULL

> I think this is the way to go.

> I'll try and get some time soon to look into adding the IS NOT NULL quals,
> unless you were thinking of looking again?

Go for it, I've got a lot of other stuff on my plate.

regards, tom lane

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