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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2025-05-29 12:37:05 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2025-05-29 12:37:05 -0400
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doc PG 18 relnotes: modify async I/O item for other improvementsHEADmaster
Add "etc." to indicate other actions will also be improved by asynchronous I/O. Reported-by: Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bqjgSYA+OdemL-X91Yv53OwsVARZy+-tRyj8YQ=kcj0A@mail.gmail.com
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@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Add an asynchronous I/O subsystem (Andres Freund, Thomas Munro, Nazir Bilal Yavu
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-This feature allows backends to queue multiple read requests, which allows for more efficient sequential scans, bitmap heap scans, and vacuums.
+This feature allows backends to queue multiple read requests, which allows for more efficient sequential scans, bitmap heap scans, vacuums, etc.
This is enabled by server variable io_method, with server variables io_combine_limit and io_max_combine_limit added to control it. This also enables
effective_io_concurrency and maintenance_io_concurrency values greater than zero for systems without fadvise() support. The new system view pg_aios shows the file handles being used
for asynchronous I/O.