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PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"


As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements.

As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements. The very initial support for using IO_uring has been merged to PostgreSQL Git as of yesterday, 26 March. This Linux-specific feature also requires setting the "io_method=io_uring" PostgreSQL option for using IO_uring as the database server's I/O method.

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