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PostgreSQL 19 delay, and Robert Haas on bugs that LLMs can find
PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas says the PostgreSQL 19 delay reflects the project's focus on quality, but raises a long-term challenge: decades of bugs that language models may be able to find.
According to the text, PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes about the difficulties the project faces in preparing its next version, 19. In his view, the release delay is not particularly worrying: it is not long overall and comes directly from the project's concern with quality. The more delicate point is long term. Haas notes that there are about forty years of bugs that humans have not found, but that language models (LLMs) are quite capable of discovering. The question he leaves is how the project will keep upgrading and continue innovating. He says he does not yet have an answer, but that he and many others are working hard to find one. The text is a machine translation of content from the LWN feed, which analyzed the PostgreSQL 19 release and its challenges in September. To consult the original, use the LWN reference given in the text itself and check the publication date before citing it. The text does not give additional version numbers, release dates or lists of specific bugs, and this summary does not add them.
Original source: Haas: PostgreSQL 19 está atrasado, e a culpa é da IA