Thats how our updates works. We usually tend to touch the same row many times a day.
~ Gauri On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Pavan Deolasee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Gauri Kanekar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Found that the size increased gradually. Is HOT working over here ?? > > Guide me if im doing something wrong. > > > > You have chosen a bad case for HOT. Since you are repeatedly updating > the same set of rows, the dead space created in the first step is the > blocks which are not touched in the subsequent updates. Is this a real > scenario or are you just testing ? If its just for testing, I would > suggest updating different sets of rows in each step and then check. > > Thanks, > Pavan > > > > -- > Pavan Deolasee > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > -- Regards Gauri