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Storage Management Topics

Topics to be considered:
  • DB Object Management (Catalog)
    • how tables/functions/types, etc. are represented
  • Disks and Files
    • performance issues and organisation of disk files
  • Buffer Management
    • using caching to improve DBMS system throughput
  • Tuple/Page Management
    • how tuples are represented within disk pages
Each topic illustrated by its PostgreSQL implementation.