On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 09:58 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> I wonder why anyone would like to freeze during CLUSTER command when
>> they already have separate way (VACUUM FREEZE) to achieve it, do you
>> know or can think of any case where user wants to do it along with
>> Cluster command?
>
> "If I'm rewriting the table anyway, let's freeze it".
>
> Otherwise, you have to write the same pages twice, if both CLUSTER and
> FREEZE are required.
I wonder if we should go so far as to make this the default behavior,
instead of just making it an option.
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