Re: What is "Postgresql Hot"?

esconsult1(at)gmail(dot)com ("Ericson Smith") writes:
> I've not been following up on the list for some time now, and recently
> re-subscribed. There is some talk of "Postgresql Hot" which appears to
> be a hot backup solution that may be included in 8.3
>
> * How is it different from the current Perl script out there?
> * Can't pg_dump already give us hot backups?

Probably what is referred to is this...
<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-11/msg00059.php>

The "Heap Overflow Tuple" patch.

This is intended to improve update behaviour on heavily updated
tables.
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