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From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Does VACUUM reorder tables on clustered indices
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Msg-id 20051220214124.GR28771@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Does VACUUM reorder tables on clustered indices  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:01:39PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Martin Marques escribi?:
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, frank church wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >Does VACUUMing reorder tables on clustered indices or is it only the 
> > >CLUSTER
> > >command that can do that?
> > 
> > Cluster does that. Vacuum only cleans dead tuples from the tables.
> 
> Note that while reordering, CLUSTER also gets rid of dead tuples, so if
> you cluster you don't need to vacuum.

It also does a REINDEX...
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