On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Richard Broersma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> There is one possible alteration that may or many not improve
>> performance.  This would be to replace the EXISTS with a LEFT JOIN
>> WHERE IS NOT NULL;
>
> That changes the behavior, doesn't it?  Or is event_log_no a unique
> key for Myevents?  I think what you want is to make the EXISTS an IN
> instead.

Thanks for pointing that out Tom.  I hadn't consider how the EXISTS
clause would return potentially fewer rows if event_log_no wasn't
unique.


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