Re: Is dump-reload the only cure? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: Is dump-reload the only cure?
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Msg-id 1036161531.5794.18.camel@jester
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In response to Re: Is dump-reload the only cure?  (<mallah@trade-india.com>)
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> Does it Mean that clustered indexes are guarrented  to be used for index scan?
> one more thing does clustering means that all future data addition will happen
> in the ordered manner only i mean consecutively in terms of source_id?

No, but clustering a table allows an index scan to visit less pages, and
make less disk seeks. This in turn makes it a better choice for some
queries due to the current layout of tuples on the disk.  However, there
are new borderline cases -- just in different places than before.

--
  Rod Taylor


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