Re: More Praise for 7.4RC2

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Reece Hart <reece(at)in-machina(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Suspecting that I had a swiss-cheese table, I reclustered on an index
> > several times (which, I presume, is at least as good as vacuum (non-full)
> > removing internal free space, with the benefit of optimized row ordering).
>
> My understanding is that CLUSTER is as good as a VACUUM FULL actually.

Well, it's different in that it does the equivalent of a REINDEX on all
indexes.

It's also slower and needs lots of additional space: double the space of
your table and all it's indexes.

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