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authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2025-03-30 19:14:55 -0400
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2025-03-30 19:16:47 -0400
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Enable IO concurrency on all systems
Previously effective_io_concurrency and maintenance_io_concurrency could not be set above 0 on machines without fadvise support. AIO enables IO concurrency without such support, via io_method=worker. Currently only subsystems using the read stream API will take advantage of this. Other users of maintenance_io_concurrency (like recovery prefetching) which leverage OS advice directly will not benefit from this change. In those cases, maintenance_io_concurrency will have no effect on I/O behavior. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_atGgZePo=_g6T3cNtfMf0QxpvoUh5OUqa_cnPdhLd=gw@mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
index 7c12434efa2..ff56a1f0732 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@
# - I/O -
#backend_flush_after = 0 # measured in pages, 0 disables
-#effective_io_concurrency = 16 # 1-1000; 0 disables prefetching
-#maintenance_io_concurrency = 16 # 1-1000; 0 disables prefetching
+#effective_io_concurrency = 16 # 1-1000; 0 disables issuing multiple simultaneous IO requests
+#maintenance_io_concurrency = 16 # 1-1000; same as effective_io_concurrency
#io_max_combine_limit = 128kB # usually 1-128 blocks (depends on OS)
# (change requires restart)
#io_combine_limit = 128kB # usually 1-128 blocks (depends on OS)