Thank you very much, Alan and Martijn, for the advice! Mark Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:52:11PM -0800, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:38, "Angva" <angvaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > three commands. For instance I have a hunch that creating the indexes > > > first (as I do now) could slow down the clustering - perhaps the row > > > locations in the indexes all have to be updated as the cluster command > > > shifts their locations? And perhaps vacuuming should be done before > > > clustering so that dead tuples aren't "in the way"? > > > > clustering also removes the dead tuples. > > > > I would just: > > > > - create one index, the one to be clustered > > - cluster the table > > - create the remaining indexes > > And then run ANALYSE. No need to vacuum because the cluster did that > already. > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. > > --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+ > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline; > filename="signature.asc" > Content-Description: Digital signature > X-Google-AttachSize: 190