Re: Re: Loading optimization

> Also, in our case, clustering by a single index is not really sufficient.
> Within a single bill we would like to cluster the items by service. I was
> thinking or writing a program that would do a pg_dump, order by columns as
> requested and then dump it back in. I would've done it except that
> Postgresql won't use the fact that it's sorted.

You can create an index on all the columns, do a CLUSTER, then drop the
index and create the one you need.

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