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The article lists ten essential PostgreSQL concepts to master in 2026 for efficient database management, covering MVCC, indexing, query optimization, and security.
A detailed technical analysis of PostgreSQL's MVCC design, its known drawbacks like write amplification and vacuum overhead, and a comparison to alternatives that shows all database engines face similar fundamental trade-offs.
This blog post discusses extending Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) to achieve serializable isolation using TLA+ formal modeling, building on previous work and referencing research by Cahill, Röhm, and Fekete.
This article explains why large DELETE operations in Postgres are inefficient and cause extra work, and recommends using DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE as more scalable alternatives for bulk data removal.