This is really awesome. I've spent a ton of time optimizing high throughput PG instances. Every time one of my optimizations failed it was from an incomplete un

This is really awesome. I've spent a ton of time optimizing high throughput PG instances. Every time one of my optimizations failed it was from an incomplete understanding of the physical storage layer and/or MVCC. These 2 docs really help with a deeper understanding if you want to learn more: http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/internalpics.pdf http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/internalpics.pdf http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/mvcc.pdf http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/mvcc.pdf