For what it's worth, I like the second form better.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Christopher
> Kings-Lynne
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:08 AM
> To: PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: [HACKERS] Syntax question
>
>
> Here are the two syntaxes we can use for turning off clustering:
>
> 1) ALTER TABLE / SET WITHOUT CLUSTER
>
> This will turn off clusting on any index on the table that has it
> enabled. It won't recurse so as to match the CLUSTER ON syntax.
> However, this form makes the non-standardy SET WITHOUT form more
> emphasised...
>
> 2) ALTER TABLE / DROP CLUSTER ON idx
>
> I like this form, however to make it work, we need to bump CLUSTER to
> being a reserved keyword. This form looks more like SQL standard, and
> is related to the CLUSTER ON form.
>
> Which one do we want?
>
> Chris
>
>
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