there have been a few attempts at adding TDE to postgresql. I think the cybertec patches are probably the most notable https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/postgresql/tree/15tde...

UMENU https://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm

it might work but keep in mind schema changes in cockroachdb very different under the hood. for one they are not transactional and run in the background https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan...

See my other comment. Unfortunately Cockroach doesn't do much in terms of helping with zero-downtime schema migrations :/

P-star https://www.p-star.org/

can we chat over email? contact is hn username at gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3SBgcZwtE. Good talk by a core developer

This is another presentation from a core developer: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/optimizer.pdf

For me it was moving in with my fiance. I read out loud to her every night till she falls asleep.

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.

Red Plenty is a fabulous book about exactly this attempt to develop tools to plan the economy. Not a success, in the end, but it gave rise to great advances in the maths of dynamic optimization.

Are you arguing that this worked? Their centrally planned economy was a disaster of ineffeciency compared to western price based systems.

It worked and it didn't. In large parts the bureaucrats actually opposed linear programming methods, but really the biggest issue was data, not planning. They had no automated data collection systems to speak of.

Beyond that, the Soviet economy was solidly middling as far as the world was concerned.

citizen/soldier/farmer the Romanitas ideal. Also kind of rolls up into the whole Cincinnatus thing.