Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> I don't think we want to cluster on the primary key. I think we just
> want to rewrite the table keeping the same physical ordering.
Well if that's what you want to do, couldn't you do something like?:
Lock the table.
Prop all indexes
Pass the heap with two pointers, one to the first available empty
space and one to the first non-dead row past that, and move inside the
existing file.
Rebuild the indexes.
Release the lock.
-Kevin
