Re: Postgre and AIO

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM Weck, Luis <luis.weck@pismo.io> wrote:
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> This is more of a question of capability and to make me understand how exactly AIO work in Postgres.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Anyway, does any of this make sense? Could Postgres extend the use of AIO to such cases?

To my knowledge, AIO for index scan is still in-progress and expected
to land in v19/20 or later?

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/AIO (not stay-up-to date)
[2] https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/what-went-wrong-what-went-right-with-aio-with-andres-freund

Best,
Xuneng