Re: REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL
Date: 2002-08-27 16:13:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0208271211230.19378-100000@polluelo.lab.protecne.cl
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands?
> > This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having
> > unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support.
> >
> > Actually, we should just leave the 'ALL' off. That will make them behave
> > like VACUUM without arguments...
>
> Wow, now that is a nify idea! Let me add it to TODO and we can get rid
> of the shell scripts entirely:
>
> o Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables, remove clusterdb
> o Allow REINDEX to rebuild all indexes, remove /contrib/reindex

Huh... I asked whether to do the CLUSTER ALL thing, and someone said it
was just bloat; no one seemed to think it was useful, so I abandoned the
idea.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"Porque Kim no hacia nada, pero, eso si,
con extraordinario exito" ("Kim", Kipling)

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