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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CLUSTER and synchronized scans and pg_dump et al
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Msg-id 25999.1201455916@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to CLUSTER and synchronized scans and pg_dump et al  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Perhaps we should have some form of escape hatch for pg_dump to request real
> physical order when dumping clustered tables.

Yeah, Rae Steining was complaining to me about that off-list a few weeks
ago.  The whole syncscan behavior risks breaking many apps that "always
worked before", even if they were disregarding the letter of the SQL spec.

Maybe a GUC variable to enable/disable syncscan?
        regards, tom lane

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