Postgres Async I/O Q&A with Tomas Vondra

Postgres 18 was released with Asynchronous I/O (AIO) out of the box which is expected to have wide sweeping performance improvements for many users - 4-5x better read performance for some. The introduction of a native async i/o subsystem marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in Postgres’ history. Join us for a deep-dive session featuring Tomas Vondra, PostgreSQL Committer and one of several engineers on the async i/o project. Tomas has done a lot of work on the benchmarking and measurement aspect of async i/o. This meetup will have a few slides but the primary focus will be a…