On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:09:12PM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> So what you really need is the CLUSTER command to leave pages half-empty
> and the tuple placement logic on inserts/updates to place new tuples
> near the place where they would be placed by CLUSTER. I.e. the code that
> does actual inserting should be aware of CLUSTERing.
Oh, you mean like what I half-proposed in
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-06/msg00968.php
BTW, this is the one message (the one on the CVS log I cite at the end)
that got me into Postgres hacking. The little involvement I've had has
been great. Thanks to all PostgreSQL hackers!
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"El realista sabe lo que quiere; el idealista quiere lo que sabe" (Anonimo)
