On 8/9/07, Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:04:09PM +0530, Merlin Moncure wrote: > >keep an eye for the HOT feature which will hopefully make 8.3 that > >will highly reduce the penalty for (small) updates in many cases. > > Is there an overview somewhere about how this feature works and what it > is expected to do? There have been a lot of references to it over time, > and it's possible to understand it if you follow list traffic over time, > but starting cold it's hard to know what it is. The name was poorly > chosen as far as google is concerned. :) This is what I found when I went looking for info earlier: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-07/msg00142.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-07/msg00360.php ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
