Re: REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL
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Msg-id 200208271618.g7RGIDV28287@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands?
> > > This would be neat.  Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having
> > > unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support.
> > > 
> > > Actually, we should just leave the 'ALL' off.  That will make them behave
> > > like VACUUM without arguments...
> > 
> > Wow, now that is a nify idea!   Let me add it to TODO and we can get rid
> > of the shell scripts entirely:
> > 
> >         o Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables, remove clusterdb
> >     o Allow REINDEX to rebuild all indexes, remove /contrib/reindex
> 
> Huh... I asked whether to do the CLUSTER ALL thing, and someone said it
> was just bloat; no one seemed to think it was useful, so I abandoned the
> idea.

Oh, we did?  Yes, I remember that.

Well, seeing as we now need clusterdb command, it would be better to get
the backend to do it rather than have a separate command floating
around.  A separate script is certainly more bloat than whatever code we
would add in cluster.c.

I think this may have been before we got on the idea of marking
pg_attribute with cluster info so we could more easily do cluster of all
tables.

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