<>(not equal to) in where clause can use index

Started by AI Rummanabout 15 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1AI Rumman
rummandba@gmail.com

Is it possible to add some operator class in Postgresql 9 so that <>(not
equal to) in where clause can use index?

If yes how?

Any idea please.

#2Nicklas Avén
nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no
In reply to: AI Rumman (#1)
Re: <>(not equal to) in where clause can use index

One way to get around the problem is often to do a left or right join,
use = instead of <> , and catch the rows with null in id field,
something like:

SELECT a.* from
table a LEFT JOIN tableb b on a.testfld=b.testfld
WHERE b.id is null;

This one will use indexes on testflda and testfldb an

HTH

/Nicklas

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On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 15:09 +0600, AI Rumman wrote:

Is it possible to add some operator class in Postgresql 9 so that
<>(not equal to) in where clause can use index?

If yes how?

Any idea please.