Re: [PERFORM] CLUSTER command

Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>

From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
To: johnnnnnn <john@phaedrusdeinus.org>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-12-12T22:39:44Z
Lists: pgsql-performance, pgsql-general
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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