From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [doc patch] a slight VACUUM / VACUUM FULL doc improvement proposal
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:34:42 -0400
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mstone+postgres@mathom.us (Michael Stone) writes:
> 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.
Actually, this is irrelevant.
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.
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