Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault
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Nov 2, 2026First seen
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On Hacker News
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- 573
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- 351
- Submitted by
- soheilpro
- Posted
- Oct 31, 2026
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- rhaas.blogspot.com
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Trending history
Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 76 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #2 of 30, reached on Nov 2, 17:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 2, 19:37 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #2 | 1 | 76 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault | same link | |||
From the discussion
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
This is a good thing. Repaying technical debt is always a great thing. On our own 1.5M loc system, we've found and fixed thousands of bugs, security holes and circular dependencies in the last year. Code quality has increased, test coverage increased. We've also recently set our compiler to treat warnings as errors,…
> This year is going to be different. PostgreSQL 19 most likely won’t be released until November… […] So, what happened? The short answer is that LLMs happened. […] There’s a huge amount of code, and that code contains a huge number of bugs. […] What’s different now is that it’s become vastly easier to find those…
I did a little AI-assisted bug-hunting in Postgres this summer in between jobs, and the haul was staggering. Multiple serialization anomalies (eg [0] [1] [2]), foreign key integrity issues ([3] [4]), planner correctness bugs such as [5]. Various CVE-worthy vulnerabilities. An unfixable timezone bug [6]. The list got…
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Is Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 2, 19:37 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault reached?
#2 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 2, 17:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 2, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (76 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
573 points and 351 comments; submitted by soheilpro on Oct 31, 2026.