First draft of PG 19 release notes

First seen: 2026-04-15 01:18:57+00:00 · Messages: 83 · Participants: 25

Latest Update

2026-05-27 · claude-opus-4-6

No substantive new progress

This round contains only routine editorial corrections to the release notes draft:

  1. Evan Li (forwarding from Chong Peng) identified an inaccuracy in the slot synchronization entry: slotsync_skip_reason belongs to pg_replication_slots, not pg_stat_replication_slots. The fix is to mention both catalog views. Bruce accepted and applied.

  2. Thom Brown submitted two rounds of fixes (an initial patch, then a corrected version with additional changes he'd accidentally omitted). Bruce applied both. No details of the specific corrections are quoted in the messages, but Bruce's quick acceptance ("all very good, applied") indicates they are minor editorial/factual fixes.

None of these messages introduce new policy arguments, advance the dormant inclusion-criteria debate, respond to Melanie Plageman's unanswered request for codified criteria, or make use of the 1,556-excluded-commits opt-out mechanism. The thread remains in routine copy-editing mode.

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2026-05-18 · claude-opus-4-6

No substantive new progress

Two new messages constitute a brief, self-contained editorial correction:

pg@bowt.ie (likely Peter Geoghegan) flagged the "Add fake LSN support to hash index AM" item for removal, arguing it offers no user-visible benefit and is purely preparatory infrastructure for index prefetching that didn't land in PG 19. The commit message itself explicitly states it is "not an independently useful enhancement."

Bruce Momjian immediately agreed and removed the item.

This is a straightforward application of Bruce's existing inclusion criteria (no user-visible benefit → exclude). It does not advance the dormant policy debate, introduce new participants with novel arguments, or shift any positions. The excluded-commits opt-out mechanism and Melanie Plageman's unanswered request for codified criteria remain the open items from prior rounds.