Re: CLUSTER and clustered indices

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CLUSTER and clustered indices
Date: 2005-11-17 15:58:30
Message-ID: 26552.1132243110@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> When a table has been CLUSTERed on a particular index AND that index
> values is monotonically increasing, then it would be a bad move to use
> blocks from the FSM since this would tend to destroy the natural
> clustering sequence.

By the time there are any blocks in FSM to take, the original clean
index page sequence is doubtless history. The pure-increasing-key
scenario you are thinking of never will have any FSM entries, so it's
moot.

regards, tom lane

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