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Re: How much clustered?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Carlos Henrique Reimer <carlosreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >   I would like to know how much clustered is a table related to some index.... How can I discover?
> 
> You could do
> 	select ctid from mytable order by indexcolumns
> and then do whatever sort of calculation strikes your fancy on the
> sequence of page numbers.  (It's probably fair to ignore the row
> numbers, considering an index to be fully clustered if the page
> reference sequence is perfect.)

Currently we output the ctid as a string:

	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "(%u,%u)", blockNumber, offsetNumber);

Perhaps someday we should consider outputting that as an array or a
result set:

	test=> select x from (select 1, 2) as x;
	   x
	-------
	 (1,2)
	(1 row)

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