Sep 20, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss possibly twelve different feature reversions in Postgres 19 and why, the impact of one more index, the cost of a single insert and Neki is released. To…
Our first piece of content, what is happening with Postgres 19? This is from snowflake.com.
So last week we talked about the SQL property graph queries being reverted, the alter table merge split partitions.
But now we have update delete for portion of, which is a feature for temporal range columns.
The default toast compression change to LZ4 has been reverted because it was missing some support in the build farm.
Now she says repack is still in version 19, but it's limited to a single process that can run concurrently.
Nested query tracking that was in pgstat statements is gone, and online data checksums is gone as well.
This is from thebuild.com. And there is a fourth beta plan for September 24th.
And this blog post compares to what the 18 development cycle looked like against Postgres 19.
So identical feature freeze on April 8th in both years and for both versions.
Our first piece of content, what is happening with Postgres 19? This is from snowflake.com.
So last week we talked about the SQL property graph queries being reverted, the alter table merge split partitions.
But now we have update delete for portion of, which is a feature for temporal range columns.
The default toast compression change to LZ4 has been reverted because it was missing some support in the build farm.
Now she says repack is still in version 19, but it's limited to a single process that can run concurrently.
Nested query tracking that was in pgstat statements is gone, and online data checksums is gone as well.
This is from thebuild.com. And there is a fourth beta plan for September 24th.
And this blog post compares to what the 18 development cycle looked like against Postgres 19.
So identical feature freeze on April 8th in both years and for both versions.
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