I would be wary putting too much stock in a seven year old post on the topic; lots of stuff has changed. Specifically, at least one person claimed that a patch

I would be wary putting too much stock in a seven year old post on the topic; lots of stuff has changed. Specifically, at least one person claimed that a patch greatly improved PostgreSQL for this use case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285452