Re: Maintaining cluster order on insert

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maintaining cluster order on insert
Date: 2007-07-10 11:43:06
Message-ID: 469370CA.1060608@enterprisedb.com
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> It's pretty serious what you're suggesting since it means that we'll basically
> never have a real cluster feature. I would sure hope we're missing something
> and there's a way to make this work usefully.

Another approach would be an online CLUSTER command. That means there'll
be a lot of churn when tuples need to be moved back and forth, along
with updating indexes, but it'd take the overhead out of the critical path.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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