Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1104210/

PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes
about the struggles the project has encountered in putting together its
next release.

In the end, I don’t think that the delay in shipping PostgreSQL 19
is particularly concerning. It is not a long delay in the grand
scheme of things, and it emerges directly from the project’s
concern for quality.

The long-term picture is less clear and in some ways more
troubling: given that we have forty years of bugs that humans were
unable to find but LLMs are quite capable of discovering, how are
we ever going to catch up, and how will PostgreSQL continue to
innovate? Right now, I’m not sure. What I do know is that I, and
many others, are working really hard to figure it out.

LWN looked at the PostgreSQL 19 release
and its challenges in September.