Document that CLUSTER breaks MVCC visibility rules.

(Not needed in cvs head, because CLUSTER itself is fixed there)

Heikki Linnakangas

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
index 19e8064b172..5c63e4493c8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml,v 1.35 2005/01/04 00:39:53 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml,v 1.35.6.1 2007/05/13 16:04:35 mha Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -100,6 +100,17 @@ CLUSTER
   <title>Notes</title>
 
    <para>
+    <command>CLUSTER</command> loses all visibility information of tuples,
+    which makes the table look empty to any snapshot that was taken
+    before the <command>CLUSTER</command> command finished. That makes
+    <command>CLUSTER</command> unsuitable for applications where
+    transactions that access the table being clustered are run concurrently
+    with <command>CLUSTER</command>. This is most visible with serializable
+    transactions, because they take only one snapshot at the beginning of the
+    transaction, but read-committed transactions are also affected.
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
     In cases where you are accessing single rows randomly
     within a table, the actual order of the data in the
     table is unimportant. However, if you tend to access some