Re: PostgreSQL v7.1 Release Candidate 4

> Hi all,
> 
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> > If, by Friday, April 13th, there have been no bugs reported, all that will
> > happen is that rc4 will get renamed as the official release, no
> > repackaging or anything ...
> 
> Was hoping that I'd have some time to get around to it before now, but I
> haven't so am posting to the list. For quite some time I have found the
> behaviour of CLUSTER to be deceiving. The documentation has some to say
> about its short comings.
> 
>    The table is actually copied to a temporary table in index order, then
>    renamed back to the original name. For this reason, all grant
>    permissions and other indexes are lost when clustering is performed.
> 
> It also drops the other relation meta data. I think this should at least
> be noted in the documentation for 7.1 full release or the heap copy should
> look at copying over triggers, checks etc.

Can you give me specific text?  I though 7.1 was a little better about
preserving the metadata.

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