Re: CLUSTER patch

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane dijo:
>
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> > > It does indeed work.  Actually, I tried to do that before, but the fact
> > > that RelationFlushBuffers requires a firstDelBlock made me turn around.
> >
> > firstDelBlock should be 0, not length-of-relation; as given, this code
> > fails to get rid of the buffer entries!
>
> Oh, I failed to understand completely the purpose of firstDelBlock then.
>
> Anyway, there's still a big problem with this patch: the pg_depend
> information gets messed up after CLUSTER, so a clustered table cannot be
> dropped.  I don't know why is this.
>
> As I said yesterday, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, and probably will
> not fix this issue.  I can look into it when I'm back, on two weeks.
>
> I attach a little doc patch.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
> "La gente vulgar solo piensa en pasar el tiempo;
> el que tiene talento, en aprovecharlo"

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