On Mar 28, 2011 8:32 AM, "Stefan Sperling" <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 07:49:22AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2011 7:41 AM, "Greg Stein" <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Think about how the query optimizer/planner would work. Consider whether a > > result set needs to be constructed. > > > > > > ... a LIMIT 1 provides a ton of help to the SQL engine about what needs to > > be fetched (or not). > > > > > > There is also a semantic element to it. Readers of the code will see that > > you're looking for basic presence rather than a set of results. > > > > > > If/when you need a query containing the set of nodes with mods, then you > > can consider another query. Until that time, the LIMIT is helpful/best. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > -g > > > > In fact, you can switch from selecting local_relpath to a simple 1: > > > > --STMT_ANY_NODES_WITH_PROP_MODS > > SELECT 1 FROM ... > > > > (note stmt name change, too) > > Fair enough. Does r1086208 look better?
I like the new names, but the LIMIT didn't make it into the commit :-)