Re: Clustering system catalog indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Clustering system catalog indexes
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Msg-id 200405200143.i4K1hMe09781@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Clustering system catalog indexes  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Re: Clustering system catalog indexes
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Is it worth us marking any system catalog indexes as clusterable by 
> default for performance?

Not sure. Most of the system stuff is loaded in a pretty good order, and
cluster is only good if you are going after seveal rows of identical
value or similar value in the same table, and I can't think of a case
where this would help.  Can others?  It is a good question.

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