Re: Clustering system catalog indexes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Clustering system catalog indexes
Date: 2004-05-20 02:02:17
Message-ID: 20040520020217.GA13544@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:43:22PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Is it worth us marking any system catalog indexes as clusterable by
> > default for performance?
>
> Not sure. Most of the system stuff is loaded in a pretty good order, and
> cluster is only good if you are going after seveal rows of identical
> value or similar value in the same table, and I can't think of a case
> where this would help. Can others? It is a good question.

pg_attribute maybe?

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