Re: Where to find information on the new HOT tables? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Where to find information on the new HOT tables?
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Msg-id 20080205142535.12e5c28e@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: Where to find information on the new HOT tables?  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
Responses Re: Where to find information on the new HOT tables?
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:13:59 +0100
Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:

> Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 22:35:11 Tom Lane, vous avez écrit :
> > The reason there isn't one is it doesn't need one; it's an
> > implementation detail not a user-visible feature. ,

Although it is an implementation detail it is certainly a very
user-visible detail. It can and will affect how people design their
databases to take advantage of the implementation detail.

>
> So how do you want us to handle the users questions about how HOT is
> good for them and who'd like to have some insights of its inner
> working, but don't want to properly learn the internals of PostgreSQL
> implementation?

We need to write a one page mini-HOWTO on taking advantage of HOT and
HOTs limitations.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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