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 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
coming up with both plans for the NOT IN query though.

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greg


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