How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner | drew's dev blog

How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner Table of Contents I remember when I first started on server-side applications – the kind that need to persist data – and not getting what the big deal about databases was. Why are databases such a big thing? Can’t we just store some data on disk and read / write from it when we need to? (Spoiler: no.) Once I started working with real-life