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Is MVCC actually superior by some other considerations? Less lock contentions, transactional DML.

The problem is not mvcc but postgres’ implementation details of it.

In what way? I didn't see anything obviously improper when I learned how serialization isolation worked.

TFA covers its issues? It’s specifically compares postgres’ to other implementations’ (oracle and mysql).

Also the paper linked from TFA goes into the various implementation options in more detail: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2017/p781-wu.pdf

A delicated full vacuum process that need full locking, how little isolation between tables, etc

Lots of the pain point have been mitigated in the last ten years. It is now as simple as other comparable complex db can go (i.e. Not simple, but you can't find better product)

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