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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