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Hacker News Apr 5, 2026 at 00:13 Developer Tools

AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy

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An AWS engineer reported that PostgreSQL performance was reduced by roughly half after moving to Linux kernel 7.0, and indicated that fixing the regression could be challenging.

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