Re: Need to run CLUSTER to keep performance

Rafael Martinez wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> In 8.1, CLUSTER will remove those tuples anyway, but it's actually not
>> correct.
>
> With other words, .... we have to be very carefull to not run CLUSTER on
> a table been modified inside a transaction if we do not want to lose
> data? ...
>
> Does this mean that if we run a transaction which update/delete many
> rows, run cluster before the transaction is finnish, and then rollback
> the transaction after cluster has been executed, all dead rows
> updated/deleted by the transaction can not be rollbacked back because
> they are not there anymore?
>

Stupid question, I could have checked this myself. CLUSTER will wait to
be executed until the transaction is finish. I have just checked this.

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University of Oslo, Norway

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