* Ahem *

Moving along, there are three main points made.

  • Indexes love big blocks
  • Temp loves big blocks
  • TPC-C benchmarks use multiple block sizes and they're very heavily optimized by experts

But TPC-C doesn't seem to use big blocks for indexes, nor for Temp. So the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Getting Mike and Don to acknowledge this is not possible using currently available technology -- maybe in another ten years.