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The trademark notice. PGSimCity is an independent, non-commercial
educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals, not affiliated with,
sponsored, endorsed or approved by Electronic Arts Inc., and SimCity is a
trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. The notice appears on the loading screen,
near the top of the README, in the help surface, and in a footer reachable
from every screen including the observability page. The claim that this
project contains no SimCity code, assets, artwork, logos, characters, audio or
game content was added only after auditing for it — the favicon and boot mark
are hand-authored SVG, the audio engine synthesises everything and ships no
files, and the only traced artwork here is the PostgreSQL logo, a different
trademark already disclaimed in NOTICE.
Row versions. MVCC is what most reliably surprises someone arriving from
another database, and it was modelled without being shown at the level where
it teaches: dead tuples accumulated and vacuum removed them, but nothing said
why. You can now see an UPDATE write a second copy of a row, two transactions
looking at the same row and seeing different versions of it, and the old
version becoming collectable only once the horizon passes it.
Changed
The tour waits for you. Chapters advanced on a clock, whether or not you
had finished reading — and at 60 to 110 words each, anyone who stopped to look
at the thing being described lost their place. They now advance when you do,
auto-play is opt-in, and the card says which chapter of fourteen you are on.