On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> I cannot speak to your suggestion, but it sounds like you are not
> vacuuming enough and a lot of the bloat/randomization would be helped
> by making use of HOT updates in which the updates are all in the same
> page and are reclaimed almost immediately.
>
> Regards,
> Ken
IIRC, HOT only operates on non-indexed columns, so if you the tables
are heavily indexed you won't get the full benefit of HOT. I could be
wrong though.