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

Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting for maximizing I/O performance in Postgres 18 over the default setting ‘worker’.

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