On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Marc Mamin wrote:
But I often read that BETWEEN is faster than using 2 comparison operators.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-comparison.html
says otherwise.
a BETWEEN x AND y
is equivalent to
a >= x AND a <= y
There is no difference between the two respective forms apart from the
CPU cycles required to rewrite the first one into the second one
internally.
Matthew
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