Re: PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, at 23:33, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2026, at 05:23, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is the draft of the PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 release announcement.
>> Please review for accuracy (e.g. are features described correctly? Did I
>> miss a revert), recommendations on additions or glaring omissions,
>> structure, etc.
>>
>> Please provide feedback no later than June 4, 2026 12:00 UTC (though
>> preferably earlier!)
>
> Shameless plug: maybe the LISTEN/NOTIFY optimization could be added?
>
> The work to fix the problem was triggered when I saw the
>
> "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"
>
> article posted on Hacker News front-page [1] [2].

As a possible, admittedly imperfect, signal of newsworthiness, searching
Hacker News for "Postgres" over the past year currently shows the article
as the #3 most popular story [4]. Hacker News is not the PostgreSQL user
base, of course, but it seems reasonable to assume there is some overlap.

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=Postgres&sort=byPopularity&type=story

> If of interest, maybe plug in this sentence
>
> "better LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability for multi-channel workloads"
>
> at the end of the ### Performance paragraph that begins with:
> "PostgreSQL 19 shows up"?
>
> /Joel
>
> [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510
> [2] https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale