Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables
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by TheColorYellow
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I've always wondered what happens at the deeper levels of a DB beyond just SQL-literacy. The memory-management tricks (pages, overflows, pointers and remains techniques etc.) is always a great reminder of low-level abstractions I am blessed to not worry about. True programming seems to lie in the OS...
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