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Hot Updates in Postgres

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Re: Hot Updates in Postgres

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Somehow it feel HOT updates are very confusing. You can also try to play with interactive visualizer to understand it better https://boringsql.com/visualizers/hot-updates/

I didn't get HOT until I saw a visualizer. My mistake was updating an indexed column and wondering why nothing got faster.