From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
To: johnnnnnn <john@phaedrusdeinus.org>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] CLUSTER command
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:39:44 -0500
Message-ID: <3DF91030.A372DF7C@nsd.ca> (raw)
References: <3DF90042.E5290B7F@nsd.ca>
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<20021212222641.GA8278@performics.com>
OK fine,
Let's create a new command:
PARTITION <table> ON <attribute>
I did not want to start a fight. You can keep the CLUSTER command as it
is.
I still think clustering/partitioning would be a great idea.
This is what I want to talk about. Look at the original post for the
reasons.
JLL
johnnnnnn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:03:56PM -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > I'd vote against changing the existing CLUSTER since the existing
> > CLUSTER while not great does handle many different key values fairly
> > well as well and this solution wouldn't.
>
> I would agree. What's being proposed sounds much more like table
> partitioning than clustering.
>
> That's not to say that the existing CLUSTER couldn't be improved, at
> the very least to the point where it allows inserts to respect the
> clustered structure. That's a post for another thread, though.
>
> -johnnnnnnnnnnn
>
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