Re: Clustering system catalog indexes

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Clustering system catalog indexes
Date: 2004-05-20 01:43:22
Message-ID: 200405200143.i4K1hMe09781@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Is it worth us marking any system catalog indexes as clusterable by
> default for performance?

Not sure. Most of the system stuff is loaded in a pretty good order, and
cluster is only good if you are going after seveal rows of identical
value or similar value in the same table, and I can't think of a case
where this would help. Can others? It is a good question.

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