On 8/9/07, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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