Second presentation in a speaker series sponsored by the Portland State University Computer Science Department. The series covers PostgreSQL performance with an OLTP (on-line transaction processing) workload called Database Test 2 (DBT-2). This presentation gives background information on how these database test kits came to be. The corresponding slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/markwkm/postgresql-portland-performance-practice-project-database-test-2-background-presentation
