PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>       Here are two ways to phrase a query... the planner choses very 
> different  
> plans as you will see. Everything is freshly ANALYZEd.

Usually we get complaints the other way around (that the NOT EXISTS
approach is a lot slower).  You did not show any statistics, but I
suspect the key point here is that the condition id > 1130306 excludes
most or all of the A and D tables.  The planner is not smart about
making transitive inequality deductions, but you could help it along
by adding the implied clauses yourself:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT r.* FROM raw_annonces r
  LEFT JOIN annonces a ON (a.id=r.id AND a.id > 1130306)
  LEFT JOIN archive_data d ON (d.id=r.id AND d.id > 1130306)
  WHERE a.id IS NULL AND d.id IS NULL AND r.id > 1130306
  order by id limit 1;

Whether this is worth doing in your app depends on how often you do
searches at the end of the ID range ...

                        regards, tom lane

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