Re: Re: Name for new VACUUM

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Name for new VACUUM
Date: 2001-08-05 18:38:03
Message-ID: 2327.997036683@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> Just out of curiosity - does CLUSTER currently "practically rebuild
> a tables representation" ?

CLUSTER currently *loses* most of a table's representation :-(.
It needs work.

But since the whole point of CLUSTER is to physically rearrange the
tuples of a table, it seems to me that it's in a different category
from VACUUM anyway.

regards, tom lane

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