We’re now in the “feature freeze” phase of Postgres 18 development. That means no new features will get in - only bugfixes and cleanups of already committed changes. The goal is to test and stabilize the code before a release. PG 18 beta1 was released a couple days ago, so it’s a perfect time to do some testing and benchmarking. One of the fundamental changes in PG 18 is going to be support for asynchronous I/O. And with beta1 out, it’s the right time to run your tests and benchmark...
