Re: WHERE clause OR vs IN

Thanks everyone, and I know I am taking too much bandwidth, but...

The reason I was thinking IN would work better is that from a parser point of view confronted with a series of expressions chained via boolean operators such as
expr OR expr OR expr
The back end code generated has to be generic to combat with different type of expression such as equality, greater than, less than, or any fancy expressions. For example:
a == b OR c != d  AND e > f OR g == h
Where as in the case of
a IN (1, 2, 3, 4)
is actually a subset of the above composite expression because
1- the expressions are always equality of operand a with a literal value which means the operand can be cached (register)
2- the composite expression is always an OR chained expression where the first TRUE-ness would return the composite as TRUE (aka short circuit behavior)

I could be wrong...I have been wrong before...

Medi