Postgres 19 Is Late Because LLMs Found Forty Years of Bugs
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Discussion of the blog article Postgres 19 Is Late Because LLMs Found Forty Years of Bugs.
PostgreSQL slipped its release for the first time in years, and a core committer's explanation is four words long: LLMs happened. Back-patched commits are up over 60% on the stable branches while master commits went slightly down. Three major features got yanked between August 27 and September 15.
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