On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> You may be able to put Table Inheritance to good use here...
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> I do not know (but doubt) if HOT optimization works when going from NULL
> to non-NULL since the former is stored in a bitmap while the later occupies
> normal relation space and thus the update would likely end up writing an
> entirely new record upon each event category recording.
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> David J.
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Thanks!