> many of the issues brought up in this post can be reduced or eliminated by using a managed database service like Heroku PostgreSQL, ... They come with their

> many of the issues brought up in this post can be reduced or eliminated by using a managed database service like Heroku PostgreSQL, ... They come with their own issues though. I was unable to change a ludicrously small variable (which I think was temp_buffers) on Heroku's largest Postgres option. There was no solution. I just had to accept that the cloud provider wouldn't let me use this tool and code around what otherwise would have worked. That said, at least backups and monitoring are easy.