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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: documentation on HOT
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 18:56:32 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwZHCbKYpEKEoQe=4Vf7JxTwVLbZdiLt-W+QgJsBN7wkzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 6:08 PM Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Given the importance of HOT, it seems like this would be a good topic to
> document. I would suggest something higher-level for general users in
> the "Indexes"[4] section, and something lower-level in internals[5]
> (which could perhaps be derived from [2]).
>
> Thoughts on this?
>

I'm doubting there is any disagreement that this is needed.  Three of us
said as much recently [1] while discussing a user question regarding our
documentation for expression indexes.

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKFQuwY2MAhXTpPNG9cBA135GAOPcZ0jK-QkqW8_VCGQDJXtjQ%40mai...

I presently haven't felt moved to fill the need myself as so I was fine
with at least providing a high-level summary in the glossary which we also
the general user to understand the idea without having to dive into the
README.  The details for internals can continue to be handled there in the
interest of at least getting something committed for the majority of users.

David J.

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