Re: fate of CLUSTER command ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: fate of CLUSTER command ?
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Msg-id GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOOEHPCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: fate of CLUSTER command ?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fate of CLUSTER command ?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> Clustering on one index doesn't decrease the performance of the other
> indexes.  Also, only >=7.3 will preserve all indexes during cluster.

Sure it must?  Since you are rearranging all on-disk rows to match a
particular index (say user_id, username) then it will slow down other
indexes (eg one just on username).

Chris



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