Re: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-12 Thread Wes
On 1/12/06 10:37 AM, "Greg Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's only a factor of 3-4 then the merge join should be faster. If it's > really two orders of magnitude (100x?) then the nested loop below would be > faster. I think in 8.1 (and I think in 8.0 too) the planner is capable of > comin

Re: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Stark
Wes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This appears to be very inefficient. B is almost two orders of magnitude > larger than A. C is about 3-4 times as big as B (record count). My > statement (with the same single 'B' table as above) produces: If it's only a factor of 3-4 then the merge join shou

Re: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-11 Thread Wes
On 1/12/06 12:23 AM, "Jonel Rienton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Resending sample query, darn where clause didn't wrap > > select a.*,b.* from a > left outer join b on a.id = b.a_id > where b.id is null; I tried something along those lines a while back, and it was orders of magnitude slower. T

Re: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-11 Thread Jonel Rienton
neral Subject: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records I'm trying to find/delete all records in table A that are no longer referenced by tables B or C. There are about 4 million records in table A, and several hundred million in tables B and C. Is there something more efficient than: select address_ke

Re: [GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-11 Thread Jonel Rienton
NERAL] Finding orphan records I'm trying to find/delete all records in table A that are no longer referenced by tables B or C. There are about 4 million records in table A, and several hundred million in tables B and C. Is there something more efficient than: select address_key, address from

[GENERAL] Finding orphan records

2006-01-11 Thread Wes
I'm trying to find/delete all records in table A that are no longer referenced by tables B or C. There are about 4 million records in table A, and several hundred million in tables B and C. Is there something more efficient than: select address_key, address from addresses where ( not exists(sele