TL;DR
Postgres 18 just dropped with killer new toys—think UUIDv7, a revamped EXPLAIN module and composite index skip scans—but the real headliner is built-in asynchronous IO. Hussein kicks things off by breaking down sync vs async calls, revisits how Postgres 17 tackled IO, then lays out why non-blocking disk access has been such a beast to tame.
In the main event you get a hands-on tour of the three io_methods—worker, io_uring and the classic sync fallback—alongside a peek at direct IO, backend writer support and upcoming tweaks. If you’ve ever wanted your database to stop waiting on disks, this episode is pure gold.
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