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From: Michael Stone <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [doc patch] a slight VACUUM / VACUUM FULL doc improvement proposal
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:17:16 -0400
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
>[email protected] (Michael Stone) writes:
>> Unless, of course, you don't particularly care about the order of
>> the items in your table; you might end up wasting vastly more time
>> rewriting tables due to unnecessary clustering than for full vacuums
>> on a table that doesn't need it.
>
>Actually, this is irrelevant.

I think it's perfectly relevant.

>If CLUSTER is faster than VACUUM FULL (and if it isn't, in all cases,
>it *frequently* is, and probably will be, nearly always, soon), then
>it's a faster workaround.

Cluster reorders the table. If a table doesn't have any dead rows and 
you tell someone to run cluster or vacuum full, the vaccuum basically 
won't do anything and the cluster will reorder the whole table. Cluster 
is great for certain access patterns, but I've been noticing this odd 
tendency lately to treat it like a silver bullet.

Mike Stone

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