Re: Re: Name for new VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: Name for new VACUUM
Date
Msg-id 2327.997036683@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Name for new VACUUM  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> Just out of curiosity - does CLUSTER currently "practically rebuild
> a tables representation" ?

CLUSTER currently *loses* most of a table's representation :-(.
It needs work.

But since the whole point of CLUSTER is to physically rearrange the
tuples of a table, it seems to me that it's in a different category
from VACUUM anyway.
        regards, tom lane


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