What's new in Linux kernel for PostgreSQL(erthalion.info)

21 pointsby erthalionvor 4 Monaten3 comments

What's new in Linux kernel for PostgreSQL

https://erthalion.info/2026/02/03/new-linux-for-postgresql/

4 comments

> This patch is trying to make io_uring customizable via BPF, promising better waiting and polling patterns

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1763031077.git.asml.silenc...

Absolutely fricking sick!! The write up of use cases here is so so wildly neat. Please please please, make the new completion queue engine in the kernel programmable with eBPF!!

Traubenfuchsvor 4 Monaten

Does the impact of those technological advances eventually materialize in the CRUD slop infrastructure everyone works with, with which I mean "claude, write a kubernetes yaml for a :latest postgres and deploy it" and AWS Aurora?

hagbard_cvor 4 Monaten

Does a current PC feel much faster than one from the early 2000's? If not, why not? What hardware and low-level systems development giveth the layers above these taketh.

mickelsamuelvor 4 Monaten