OK fine,
Let's create a new command:
PARTITION <table> ON <attribute>
I did not want to start a fight. You can keep the CLUSTER command as it
is.
I still think clustering/partitioning would be a great idea.
This is what I want to talk about. Look at the original post for the
reasons.
JLL
johnnnnnn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:03:56PM -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > I'd vote against changing the existing CLUSTER since the existing
> > CLUSTER while not great does handle many different key values fairly
> > well as well and this solution wouldn't.
>
> I would agree. What's being proposed sounds much more like table
> partitioning than clustering.
>
> That's not to say that the existing CLUSTER couldn't be improved, at
> the very least to the point where it allows inserts to respect the
> clustered structure. That's a post for another thread, though.
>
> -johnnnnnnnnnnn
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