| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: remove flatfiles.c |
| Date: | 2009-09-02 18:07:04 |
| Message-ID: | 1251914824.8406.41.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:01 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Greg,
>
> > I don't think we want to cluster on the primary key. I think we just
> > want to rewrite the table keeping the same physical ordering.
>
> Agreed.
Are we sure about that? I would argue that the majority of users out
their (think Django and other Web*Frameworks) are all searching
primarily by primary key + other anyway.
We could always offer the ability to vacuum full (cluster) on index foo
but default to the primary key.
Joshua D. Drake
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