AW: Optimizer confusion?

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: AW: Optimizer confusion?
Date: 2000-08-14 08:24:39
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336804D@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> I have not yet done anything about this, mainly because I'm unwilling to
> encourage people to use CLUSTER, since it's so far from being ready for
> prime time (see TODO list).

Well imho making the optimizer cluster aware is a step that has to be done
anyway. No need to advertise the cluster feature, but if a user does
already take the chances of the current cluster implementation,
he deserves the fruits, no ?

Actually I would be using the cluster command on a freshly created table
with an index that I know corresponds to insert order. No risc here.

Imho the assumption that the dba guards the cluster state of his tables
is better than assuming random distribution of a clustered table.

Of course a real statistic for all indices as we discussed before would be
better, but assuming perfect clustering state of a clustered index would be
a good step to do in lack of such a statistic.

Andreas

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