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Re: Serious performance problem

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>

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From: "Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de>
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Cc: "Claus, Hermann" <ClausH@rki.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-10-30T14:09:00Z
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote:

> AFAIK, sorting is necessary even when you have CLUSTERed a table using an index.
Sorting is not the performance constraint in my example.  Just leave out
the sorting and see what happens ...

> But if you INSERT a single row later, it will NOT get inserted to the right place. So
> SORT is still necessary.
Well rearanging the database in a cronjob after inserting new data once a day
over night would be possible - but I doubt that it makes a big difference.

Kind regards

        Andreas.