On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:17:44PM +1000, BareFeet wrote:

> select exists (select 1 from MyTable where condition)
> 
> which will return a boolean result, and stop scanning the table after  
> the first match is found.

Yes, thanks - that's right: it is partial solution indeed. "Partial" -
because in the case of non-existence it has to scan the table to the end
anyway.

But still it's better than "count(*)".
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                                pozdrawiam / regards

                                                Zbigniew Baniewski
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