[Gordonjcp]

I've always felt like Postgres is like one of those big old Detroit Diesel V12s that power generators and mining trucks and things. It's slow and loud and hopelessly thirsty compared to the modern stuff you get nowadays, and it'll continue to be just as slow and loud and hopelessly thirsty for another 40 or 50 years without stopping even once if you don't fiddle with it.

[p_l]

And then you find out that the slowness was because it was placed in first gear and someone left a limiter on the throttle...