Read Scalability in PostgreSQL 9.5

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In PostgreSQL 9.5, we will see a boost in scalability for read workload when the data can fit in RAM. I have ran a pgbench read-only load to compare the performance difference between 9.4 and HEAD (62f5e447) on IBM POWER-8 having 24 cores, 192 hardware threads, 492GB RAM and here is the performance data The data is mainly taken for 2 kind of...