Very true. It touches a bit on the retrieval side with some discussion of keys, hashing, B-trees, etc in the "Access Paths" chapter, but primarily from the pers

Very true. It touches a bit on the retrieval side with some discussion of keys, hashing, B-trees, etc in the "Access Paths" chapter, but primarily from the perspective of making the system robust and consistent. Definitely does not cover the full space of database design (no mention of query planning at all).