Sep 13, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss various reversions and the uncertain release date of Postgres 19, pgSafe a new backup solution written in Go, inserting state transitions and an…
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Our first piece of content is actually this week's episode of Postgres Weekly.
Now, normally they just post the links and then a summary of what's on those links, but here it kind of reads out a little bit like a story itself.
So Robert Haas posted a scary Postgres 19 patch contest to just take the pulse of where Postgres 19 is at and different feature sets and their readiness to be able to release when Postgres 19 releases.
And potentially as a result of that, the PGQ, basically the GraphQuery interface, has been dropped for version 19.
All the other ones that he mentions are still in there, but also merge and split partition has been dropped as well, and that wasn't even mentioned in his post.
And I do have that post linked here, so if you want to read over it, the different areas that were discussed, so that source material is there.
And originally it looked like Postgres 19 was going to be released this month, but now there's going to be a fourth beta The official release date is to be determined, and there's additional information and links about this discussion, including, quote, that Tom Lane, the one who probably contributes the most to Postgres, was quite afraid of the SQL PGQ feature.
You have David Rowley saying, you know, the revert bar can be a little bit lower this year.
And part of this may be because of the volume of security CVE fixes that have had to been done this year with AI finding all these vulnerabilities.
And Joshua Drake even suggested moving the release to spring of 2027 because he said, quote, then all these great features and hard work got it.
So we'll definitely have to see when Postgres 19 is actually going to be released.
Hopefully in another week or two or sometime after Beta 4 is released, we'll get some more insight into that.
This is from commandprompt.com. He's talking, of course, about the SQLPGQ property graphs being reverted as well as Ultra Table Merge split partition was reverted and has a little bit of information added with regard to the status of the other features coming that still need additional development work done on them.
Our first piece of content is actually this week's episode of Postgres Weekly.
Now, normally they just post the links and then a summary of what's on those links, but here it kind of reads out a little bit like a story itself.
So Robert Haas posted a scary Postgres 19 patch contest to just take the pulse of where Postgres 19 is at and different feature sets and their readiness to be able to release when Postgres 19 releases.
And potentially as a result of that, the PGQ, basically the GraphQuery interface, has been dropped for version 19.
All the other ones that he mentions are still in there, but also merge and split partition has been dropped as well, and that wasn't even mentioned in his post.
And I do have that post linked here, so if you want to read over it, the different areas that were discussed, so that source material is there.
And originally it looked like Postgres 19 was going to be released this month, but now there's going to be a fourth beta The official release date is to be determined, and there's additional information and links about this discussion, including, quote, that Tom Lane, the one who probably contributes the most to Postgres, was quite afraid of the SQL PGQ feature.
You have David Rowley saying, you know, the revert bar can be a little bit lower this year.
And part of this may be because of the volume of security CVE fixes that have had to been done this year with AI finding all these vulnerabilities.
And Joshua Drake even suggested moving the release to spring of 2027 because he said, quote, then all these great features and hard work got it.
So we'll definitely have to see when Postgres 19 is actually going to be released.
Hopefully in another week or two or sometime after Beta 4 is released, we'll get some more insight into that.
This is from commandprompt.com. He's talking, of course, about the SQLPGQ property graphs being reverted as well as Ultra Table Merge split partition was reverted and has a little bit of information added with regard to the status of the other features coming that still need additional development work done on them.
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