Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

Re:Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asy... by senderista on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:09PM (#43920108)

So you're less dependent on the page replacement algorithm being scan-resistant, since you can use this flag for scan/loop workloads, right?

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Re:Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asy... by gmokki on Thursday May 08, 2025 @01:11AM (#43923252)

I would initially add it for WAL writes and reads. There should never be another read in normal operation.

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