Re: clustering by partial indexes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: clustering by partial indexes
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Msg-id 20051115200131.GN44860@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: clustering by partial indexes  (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>)
Responses Re: clustering by partial indexes  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:18:26AM -0800, Steve Crawford wrote:
> Not trivial? Seems to me more like impossible to implement for the
> general case which would require you to resolve the situation where
> someone requests multiple, overlapping, clustered partial indexes
> where the ordering requirements are in conflict.

Well, currently you can only cluster on a single index per table, and I
really doubt that will change. In any case, if someone's going to work
on clustered indexes I think it would be much more worthwhile to make
them self-maintaining (or at least more self-maintaining).
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