Rafael Martinez wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> In 8.1, CLUSTER will remove those tuples anyway, but it's actually not >> correct. > > With other words, .... we have to be very carefull to not run CLUSTER on > a table been modified inside a transaction if we do not want to lose > data? ... > > Does this mean that if we run a transaction which update/delete many > rows, run cluster before the transaction is finnish, and then rollback > the transaction after cluster has been executed, all dead rows > updated/deleted by the transaction can not be rollbacked back because > they are not there anymore? > Stupid question, I could have checked this myself. CLUSTER will wait to be executed until the transaction is finish. I have just checked this. -- Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@xxxxxxxxxxx> Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate