Also, let me add that CLUSTER in 7.3 will be fully functional because we
will no longer be changing the oid of the table during cluster. This
will allow people to use CLUSTER more frequently/safely.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > I just tried CLUSTER command at fts.postgresql.org to cluster
> > fts index and got very visual performance win. Unfortunately
> > I had to restore permissions and recreate other indices by hand.
> > So, I'm interested what's a future of CLUSTER command ?
>
> Yes, I have always liked CLUSTER with full text searches because you are
> usually hitting multiple rows with a single equaltiy restriction, and
> CLUSTER puts all the hits on the same page.
>
> If you look in contrib/fulltextindex, you will see mention of CLUSTER in
> the README. It may make sense to add that to your documentation.
>
> Also, is there any value to contrib/fulltextindex now that we have
> contrib/tsearch?
>
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