Get Excited About Postgres 18
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The upcoming Postgres 18 release is generating excitement among developers, particularly with features like async I/O and UUID v7 support, which promise to improve performance and usability.
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I am particularly excited about async I/O to optimize reads and support for UUID v7; the leading timestamp part makes the better than UUID v4 in many contexts (writes, reads, sorting)