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Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis


week at PGConf NYC, I had the pleasure of hearing Andres Freund talking about the great work he’s been doing to bring async IO to Postgres 18. One particular result caught my eye: a large difference in performance between forward and reverse scans, seemingly driven by read ahead1.

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