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From: Weck, Luis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Postgre and AIO
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:07:09 +0000
Message-ID: <IA3PR10MB8113DB0A2CA1B6B0DE3831078D1BA@IA3PR10MB8113.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

This is more of a question of capability and to make me understand how exactly AIO work in Postgres.

Now that AIO landed in v18, I was thinking of a use case which has annoyed me sometimes, which is inserting  lots of data into a table with many indices. What I am specifically “complaining” is that index updating happens one at a time. Would it be possible/make sense to use AIO to do this?

Another thing that happens often is that an index lookup for something like SELECT y FROM tbl WHERE x IN (1,2,…N)  where N is a big number such as 1000 or 2000, takes a while, because (at least for versions < 18) it took a long time sequentially reading the index  for each value. I ended up having to split the values into smaller chunks and ran multiple queries in parallel to maintain a lower latency overall.

Anyway, does any of this make sense? Could Postgres extend the use of AIO to such cases?


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