Async IO in Postgres 18

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Postgres 18 is coming. Async IO seems big!

Postgres 18 is adding asynchronous i/o. This means faster reads for many use cases. This is also part of a bigger series of performance improvements planned for future Postgres, part of which may be multi-threading. Expect to see more on this in coming versions.

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