## No substantive progress Another minimal maintenance drop from Nitin — adjusting how pipe commands are quoted in the Windows test. Single sentence description with no technical elaboration. No des...
# COPY TO BLACKHOLE / pg_dump -j -Fb ## Technical Analysis ### Core Problem This thread, initiated by Jakub Wartak (EDB), proposes the concept of a "COPY TO BLACKHOLE" facility — essentially a mec...
## Resolution of the `019_replslot_limit.pl` Race Condition The thread reaches consensus on fixing the replication slot state race exposed by the faster WAIT FOR LSN-based `wait_for_catchup()`. ### ...
## Incremental Update: Patch v7 Submitted Rafia Sabih posted updated patches (presumably v7) on 2026-05-20. The message is minimal — stating the patch was "modified accordingly" based on prior review...
# Optimize LISTEN/NOTIFY: Deep Technical Analysis ## Core Problem PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism suffers from a fundamental scalability bottleneck: **SignalBackends() has no knowledge of whic...
# Rename Postgres 19 to Postgres 26 (Year-Based Versioning) ## Core Problem This thread proposes a fundamental change to PostgreSQL's versioning scheme: shifting from sequential integer major versi...
## Incremental Update: Patch 0004 Pushed, Reverted Due to Buildfarm Failures, Then Re-pushed with Different Test Strategy ### Key Events 1. **Patch 0004 (reject degenerate no-op split) was pushed** ...
# Pg_upgrade Bug with NOT NULL NOT VALID Constraints ## Core Problem This thread identifies a **pg_upgrade compatibility bug** introduced by PostgreSQL 18's treatment of NOT NULL constraints as fir...
# Technical Analysis: Remove Obsolete LISTEN Array Growth Isolation Test ## Core Problem This thread presents a straightforward cleanup patch that removes an isolation test related to LISTEN's inte...
# Feature Request: Native Nanosecond Precision Support for PostgreSQL Temporal Types ## Core Problem PostgreSQL's temporal types (`timestamp`, `timestamptz`, `time`, `interval`) currently provide *...
# Multi-Entry Indexing for GiST & SP-GiST: Deep Technical Analysis ## Core Problem PostgreSQL's GiST (Generalized Search Tree) and SP-GiST (Space-Partitioned GiST) access methods fundamentally assu...
## v11: Mechanical Rebase Only The single new message from Jakub Wartak (2026-05-20) is a trivial rebase of the patch set to account for commit `c7cb8e5b73c6` which affected `renumber_oids.pl`. There...
## Incremental Update: Resolution on v2 Approach + New Bug Discovery ### Convergence on v2 The debate about whether to show timestamp fields during CONNECTING state has resolved. Michael Paquier de...
# Technical Analysis: Reentrancy Guards in ri_triggers.c ## The Core Problem This thread addresses a **use-after-free vulnerability** in PostgreSQL's referential integrity trigger system (`ri_trigg...
# Deadlock Detector Fails to Activate on Hot Standby Replica ## Core Problem This thread identifies a subtle but serious bug in PostgreSQL's hot standby recovery mechanism where the deadlock detecti...
# amcheck Support for BRIN Indexes: Deep Technical Analysis ## Core Problem PostgreSQL's `amcheck` extension provides corruption-detection capabilities for B-tree indexes (and more recently GIN ind...
# Graph Database Developer Meeting at pgconf.dev 2026: Technical Analysis ## Core Problem and Context With basic SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries) support committed to PostgreSQL 19, the community fa...
## Incremental Update: Patch Accepted by Committer Michael Paquier (committer) has acknowledged the bug and committed to fixing it. He confirms the root cause as a typo originating from commit `d08c4...
## New in this round: Pyhalov identifies architectural weakness in Korotkov's "no fpinfo on function rel" design — surfaces three concrete problems A single dense message from Pyhalov that challenges...
## Incremental Update: Brief Confirmation of LSN Infeasibility Shveta Malik's latest message is a brief acknowledgment confirming the LSN-based alternative is not viable. She corroborates Nisha's ear...
## Incremental Update: Patch Committed ### What's New Fujii Masao has committed the patch. His message "I've pushed the patch. Thanks!" confirms the fix has been applied to the repository. This clos...
## Incremental Update: Minor Code Review Discussion on Follow-up Patch ### What's New The thread has two new messages that constitute a focused code review exchange between an unnamed reviewer (ah@c...
## Incremental Update: v5→v6, Test Coverage Added, Version Check Debate Resolved ### New Test Cases (v5) Jim Jones proposed and contributed concrete regression tests for the `\d` deduplication behav...
# Prevent Setting NO INHERIT on Partitioned Not-Null Constraints ## Core Problem PostgreSQL's partitioning system requires that NOT NULL constraints on partitioned tables are always inherited by ch...
# Patch for Bind Message: Unsigned Integer Handling for Parameter and Result Column Format Codes ## Core Technical Problem The PostgreSQL frontend/backend protocol (v3) specifies that certain count...