Re: Table clustering idea - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Csaba Nagy
Subject Re: Table clustering idea
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Msg-id 1151427033.3309.251.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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In response to Re: Table clustering idea  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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> I think one of the issues might have been: how will you handle other
> indexes on the table when you can no longer point them at an item (since
> items will need to move to maintain an IOT).

I guess you shouldn't allow any other indexes. That's a perfectly
acceptable compromise I think... it would be still very useful for big
and narrow tables which would benefit from being clustered.

The other concern is how would you do sequential scans on the table if
items are allowed to move ? I think some other DBs have a facility to
make a "fast index scan" which is essentially a sequential scan of the
index file, something like that would be needed here too.

Cheers,
Csaba.




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