Re: [PERFORM] CLUSTER versus a dedicated table

2011-06-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Robert James wrote: > Hi.  I'm interested in understanding the differences between > CLUSTERing a table and making a dedicated one. > > We have a table with about 1 million records.  On a given day, only > about 1% of them are of interest.  That 1% changes every day

Re: [PERFORM] CLUSTER versus a dedicated table

2011-06-01 Thread mark
> -Original Message- > From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance- > ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Robert James > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 5:55 PM > To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: [PERFORM] CLUSTER versus a dedic

[PERFORM] CLUSTER versus a dedicated table

2011-06-01 Thread Robert James
Hi. I'm interested in understanding the differences between CLUSTERing a table and making a dedicated one. We have a table with about 1 million records. On a given day, only about 1% of them are of interest. That 1% changes every day (it's WHERE active_date = today), and so we index and cluster