Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by msdz on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:40AM (#50334416)

Ah, I think I see now. Essentially the dependency module is unnecessarily large and (for your own use case) ships with extraneous features/“bloat”.

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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by BatteryMountain on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:23AM (#50335053)

Exactly. And over time a project can drift from its original purpose, so you end up building around a bunch of stuff you aren't using anyway, but you pay cost/risk for having it present.

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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by smaudet on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:28AM (#50338154)

I think the approach should probably move towards semi-tailored systems.

Maybe you don't need all of Postgres - so provide 2,3,4,5,n versions. As long as every version is covered by (possibly shared) tests, then you can release what works, ignore the rest (bugs and all).

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