On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:27 +1100, Russell Smith wrote: > Can somebody explain why it's important to load with > synchronized_scanning off?
*Loading* with synchronized scanning off is not important (and is not implemented by the patch). *Dumping* with synchronized scanning off is necessary to ensure that the order of the rows in the pg_dump matches the on-disk order of the rows in the table, which is important if you want to preserve the clustering of the table data on restore. See the -hackers thread: http://markmail.org/message/qbytsco6oj2qkxsa -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
