2026-05-14
## What's New in This Round
This round contains only two messages: Ishii adding pgsql-hackers to the CC (a procedural action with no technical content), and chenloveit's reply which introduces a **ne...
## Incremental Update: Amit Kapila Responds, Pushes Back on Documentation Need
### What's New
Amit Kapila has responded to the original thread with a counterargument that significantly reframes the ...
## No substantive progress
Yet another minimal maintenance drop from Nitin — this time addressing Windows backslash path handling in the test code. The message is a single sentence: "minor changes to...
## Incremental Update: No Substantive Progress
The only new message is from Ashutosh Bapat acknowledging Peter Eisentraut's committed version of the patch with "The changes look good to me." This is ...
## New Activity: Ashutosh Bapat Weighs In — Argues *Against* the ReleaseSysCache Fix
The only new message is from Ashutosh Bapat, who provides a surprising counter-argument to the one remaining techn...
## Incremental Update: v2 Patch Submitted
Evan Li has responded to Álvaro Herrera's feedback and submitted a v2 patch that follows the suggested direction: replacing the `StringInfo` usage with a pur...
## Incremental Update: v3 Patch — GUC Encoding Reversal and Naming Changes
### Key Development: Paquier Abandons the Separate GUC Integer Encoding
The most significant change in this round is Michae...
## Incremental Update: v2 Patch Posted (Bug Fix Only)
The v2 posting is a minor bug-fix revision with no design changes. The substantive new information is minimal.
### What's New
**UBSan-detected ...
## Incremental Update: Andrew Dunstan's Buildfarm Diagnostic Adjustment (2026-05-11)
Andrew Dunstan responds to Alexander Lakhin's report about continued failures on drongo and fairywren. The message...
## Round Update: v3 Patch Submitted, No New Technical Discussion
Daniel posted a v3 patch incorporating Zhenwei Shang's two cosmetic nits from the previous round (pluralizing "errors" and fixing the ...
## Incremental Update: Minor Editorial Feedback on Release Announcement Draft
Two new messages have appeared since the initial solicitation. The thread remains **purely administrative** with no techn...
## Incremental Update: Ashutosh Bapat responds to Peter Eisentraut's concerns
Ashutosh's reply addresses the two specific blockers Peter raised in his previous message:
### 1. Patch Application Issu...
## Incremental Update: Concurrency Concern Resolved
### Key Development
Ashutosh Bapat addressed Peter Eisentraut's concurrency/locking concern — the most substantive open issue from the prior analy...
## New in this round: Pyhalov stress-tests Korotkov's v4, finds five concrete bugs/regressions — reveals that the IMMUTABLE-only tightening came at the cost of dropping safety checks that were load-b...