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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [doc patch] a slight VACUUM / VACUUM FULL doc improvement proposal
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:38 -0400
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:26PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>Maybe, but we should also mention that CLUSTER is a likely faster
>workaround.

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.

Mike Stone



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