Re: Grouped Index Tuples / Clustered Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Gregory Stark wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:32 +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> I've been thinking 
>>> we should call this feature just Clustered Indexes 
> 
> So we would have "clustered tables" which are tables whose heap is ordered
> according to an index and separately "clustered indexes" which are indexes
> optimized for such tables?

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

There's a third related term in use as well. When you issue CLUSTER, the 
table will be clustered on an index. And that index is then the "index 
the table is clustered on". That's a bit cumbersome but that's the 
terminology we're using at the moment. Maybe we should to come up with a 
new term for that to avoid confusion..

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