Re: Table clustering idea

From: Kim Bisgaard <kib+pg(at)dmi(dot)dk>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Table clustering idea
Date: 2006-06-27 08:46:20
Message-ID: 44A0F05C.4070608@dmi.dk
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:04:18PM -0400, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>
>> Other DBMS have index organized tables that can use either hash or btree
>> organizations, both of which have their uses. We are planning to
>> implement btree organized tables sometime - anyone else interested in
>> this idea?
>>
>
> I'm curious how you'll do it, as I was once told that actually trying to
> store heap data in a btree structure would be a non-starter (don't
> remember why).
>
Ingres is now open source - they have clustering on btree/isam/hash
(it's called "modify table xx to btree on col1,col2")

Regards,
Kim

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