The reverts will continue until morale improves
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been reverted, and some of them quite late in the beta period. I have been on the receiving end of some of that, as the developer or committer of some of those features, and have gotten some questions about it, and so I want to take…
Summary
PostgreSQL 19 has seen a surprising number of feature reverts during its beta phase, with around 8 to 10 significant changes rolled back. This article discusses the implications of these reverts and the impact on developers involved in the process.
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