On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:58:49PM -0500, John D. Burger wrote: > I could use some help with the following: > > I have a database of geographic entities with attributes spread across > several tables. I need to determine which entities are unique with > respect to some of those attributes. I'm using the following query:
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If you put the gazPlaceID as a result of the uniqs subquery, that would
avoid the second lookup, right? Whether it's much faster is the
question. So something like:
select p1.gazPlaceID
from gazPlaces as p1
join gazNamings as n1 using (gazPlaceID)
join gazContainers as c1 using (gazPlaceID)
group by p1.gazPlaceID, p1.featureType, n1.placeNameID, c1.containerID
having count(*) = 1
Secondly, what does the plan look like? Is it materialising or sorting
at any stage?
Finally, what version of postgres?
Have a nice day,
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