Re: CLUSTER cannot complete

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
Cc: Marcin Krol <mrkafk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CLUSTER cannot complete
Date: 2010-02-16 00:38:49
Message-ID: 4B79E919.7060605@2ndquadrant.com
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Vick Khera wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Marcin Krol <mrkafk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't add or delete many rows from that table. Quite a lot of UPDATEs are
>> running daily, though.
>>
>
> Every update is equal to insert + delete, except in certain
> circumstances in 8.3 and above.
>

Well, it's still an insert + delete of the actual data row itself even
in 8.3, the later versions just optimize how that impacts the index
related changes there better.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
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