Re: CLUSTER cannot complete - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: CLUSTER cannot complete
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Msg-id 4B79E919.7060605@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: CLUSTER cannot complete  (Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org>)
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Vick Khera wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Marcin Krol <mrkafk@gmail.com> wrote: 
I didn't add or delete many rows from that table. Quite a lot of UPDATEs are
running daily, though.   
Every update is equal to insert + delete, except in certain
circumstances in 8.3 and above. 

Well, it's still an insert + delete of the actual data row itself even in 8.3, the later versions just optimize how that impacts the index related changes there better.

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