Commit 7eddadee authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

CLUSTER cleanup

parent 006fd925
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.TH CLUSTER SQL 01/23/93 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
.SH NAME
cluster - give storage clustering advice to Postgres
......@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ of a big table will not fit in the cache.
Another way is to use SELECT ... INTO TABLE temp FROM ...ORDER BY ...
This uses the PostgreSQL sorting code in ORDER BY to match the index,
and is much faster for unordered data. You then drop the old table, use
ALTER TABLE RENAME to rename 'temp' to the old name, and recreate the
indexes. From then on, CLUSTER should be fast because most of the heap
data has been already ordered.
ALTER TABLE RENAME to rename 'temp' to the old name, and recreate the b
bindexes. The only problem is that oids will not be preserved. From
then on, CLUSTER should be fast because most of the heap data has
already been ordered, and the existing index is used.
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
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