PostgreSQL 19 Delayed to November 19 as Devs Revert 10 Features
Summary
PostgreSQL 19 slips to about November 19 from late September, and developers have reverted eight to 10 features to version 20, including SQL/PGQ support. Committer Peter Eisentraut of EDB attributes the rework partly to LLM-assisted code review, which surfaced dozens of edge-case defects developers previously found only after release.
Key Points
- Tom Lane says shipping SQL/PGQ in version 19 risks post-release bugs that stay unfixable until version 20.
- Eisentraut says LLM-assisted review leaves developers facing a list of forty defect reports, each carrying fixed overhead.
- PostgreSQL 20, previously expected to carry no new features, now likely absorbs the reverted ones, Eisentraut says.