Postgres 19 delayed due to more bugs found
The gist
PostgreSQL 19's general availability was pushed to November 19 after a surge in bug reports and reverts.
The delay shows AI bug-hunting is outpacing the human reviewers who must vet every fix.
How it unfolded
- Apr 8, 2026 to 2026-09-25The master branch drew 1443 commits and REL_19_STABLE drew 1169, with back-patched commits up more than 60% year over year.
- Aug 27, 2026 to 2026-09-15UPDATE/DELETE FOR PORTION OF, SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ) and ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION were reverted late in the beta period.
- 2026 -09Snowflake's Elizabeth Garrett Christensen counted 53 reverts since beta began, as of mid-September.