DBMS course notes

I recently had the opportunity to take an upper-year/graduate-level
course on DBMS internals at my university. While taking that course, I
wrote some notes on course material as a study aid. I thought that
perhaps some of the people on -hackers might find the notes somewhat
useful, so Bruce was kind enough to lend me some webspace to put them
up.

The PDF is here:

http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/dbms_notes_neil_conway.pdf

The LaTeX source is here:

http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/dbms_notes_neil_conway.tex

The notes cover:

- external sorting
- various algorithms required for query evaluation (nested loops
join, hash join, sort-merge join, aggregation via sorting,
aggregation via hashing, etc.)
- query optimization (System-R's algorithm)
- concurrency control
- crash recovery

Any improvements or additions to the docs would be very welcome (you
can send me manual corrections or patches against the LaTeX source).

-Neil