We continue to follow the news about PostgreSQL 18. The January CommitFest brings in some notable improvements to monitoring, as well as other new features. You can find previous reviews of PostgreSQL 18 CommitFests here: 2024-07 , 2024-09 , 2024-11 . EXPLAIN (analyze): buffers on by default pg_stat_io: input/output statistics in bytes instead of pages pg_stat_io: WAL statistics pg_stat_get_backend_io: I/O statistics for a specific process VACUUM(verbose): visibility map information Total vac...
