Re: cluster index on a table

From: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
To: Ibrahim Harrani <ibrahim(dot)harrani(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cluster index on a table
Date: 2009-07-16 00:33:30
Message-ID: C683C36A.A2F8%scott@richrelevance.com
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If you have a lot of insert/update/delete activity on a table fillfactor can help.

I don't believe that postgres will try and maintain the table in the cluster order however.

On 7/15/09 8:04 AM, "Ibrahim Harrani" <ibrahim(dot)harrani(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hi,

thanks for your suggestion.
Is there any benefit of setting fillfactor to 70 or 80 on this table?

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Scott Marlowe<scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> As another poster pointed out, you cluster on ONE index and one index
> only. However, you can cluster on a multi-column index.
>

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