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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CLUSTER vs. VACUUM FULL
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:15:48 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaBvcGKdhqaZz+b0jNc8WLK74UCDW+zk=Ja78duOjWUBRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ron Johnson <[email protected]> writes:
> > Why is VACUUM FULL recommended for compressing a table, when CLUSTER does
> > the same thing (similarly doubling disk space), and apparently runs just
> as
> > fast?
>
> CLUSTER makes the additional effort to sort the data per the ordering
> of the specified index.  I'm surprised that's not noticeable in your
> test case.
>

Clustering on a completely different index  was also 44 seconds.


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