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Re: Feature suggestion : FAST CLUSTER



On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:00AM +0200, PFC wrote:
> 	This does not run a complete sort on the table. It would be about as 
> 	fast  as your seq scan disk throughput. Obviously, the end result is not as 
> good  as a real CLUSTER since the table will be made up of several ordered  
> chunks and a range lookup. Therefore, a range lookup on the clustered  
> columns would need at most N seeks, versus 1 for a really clustered table.  
> But it only scans the table once and writes it once, even counting index  
> rebuild.

Do you have any data that indicates such an arrangement would be
substantially better than less-clustered data?
-- 
Jim Nasby                                      decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB      http://enterprisedb.com      512.569.9461 (cell)

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