Re: Equivalent praxis to CLUSTERED INDEX? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Equivalent praxis to CLUSTERED INDEX?
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Msg-id 412D39E1.2040304@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Equivalent praxis to CLUSTERED INDEX?  (Mischa Sandberg <mischa.sandberg@telus.net>)
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> I see that PG has a one-shot CLUSTER command, but doesn't support
> continuously-updated clustered indexes.
>
> What I infer from newsgroup browsing is, such an index is impossible,
> given the MVCC versioning of records (happy to learn I'm wrong).
>
> I'd be curious to know what other people, who've crossed this same
> bridge from MSSQL or Oracle or Sybase to PG, have devised,
> faced with the same kind of desired performance gain for retrieving
> blocks of rows with the same partial key.

I just run clusterdb each weekend in a cron job...

Chris

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