Even better idea since you are looking for non matches. Use a LEFT JOIN
SELECT survey.*
FROM survey LEFT JOIN parcel_esri.parcelnum
ON (survey.parcelnum = parcel_esri.parcelnum)
WHERE parcel_esri.primary_key IS NULL;
Your primary key stuff a field that never has null values.
Leo and Regina
http://www.postgis.us
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David
Epstein
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 5:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [postgis-users] speeding up "not in" query
I have one spatial table and one non-spatial table each with about 380k
rows. They can be joined by "parcelnum". However, there are some parcel
numbers in each table that do not match. I want the full rows of the
non-matching from each. I've made a standard (b-tree) index for "parcelnum"
in both tables and then ran this query to get non-matching rows in a single
direction:
SELECT *
FROM survey
WHERE survey.parcelnum NOT IN
(SELECT parcel_esri.parcelnum
FROM parcels_esri)
This query has already run for 35 minutes and is still running. I have a
laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit with two P8700 2.53GHz CPUs and 3.8GB of
memory. Only 1 CPU and 1.3GB of memory is being used. Is there anything I
can do to speed up not-in (and join) queries?
thank you,
-david
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