Re: PostgreSQL 19 GA press release draft

On Mon, Nov 2, 2026, at 04:54, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Attached is the first draft of the PostgreSQL 19 press release.

Thanks for working on this!

> * Glaring omissions and/or items that should be removed
...
> The press release content will be finalized on Nov 8, 2026. This is to
> ensure we give our press release translators enough time to finish their
> work ahead of the release. Please ensure you've provided all of your
> feedback before that.

Could we include the LISTEN/NOTIFY improvement,
as we did in the Beta 1 announcement [1]?

The Recall.ai article

"Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale" [2]

reached #1 on the Hacker News front page and attracted substantial
discussion [3]. I have verified with Recall.ai that the improvement
addresses their specific use case. They have also updated the article
to credit the PostgreSQL community for resolving the bottleneck.

I think this makes the improvement newsworthy: readers who learned
about the problem through that coverage would benefit from knowing
that PostgreSQL 19 addresses the use case that prompted it.

The sentence we agreed on for Beta 1 seems appropriate:

There are also improvements for LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability
that impact multi-channel workloads.

I suggest adding it at the end of the performance paragraph in

### Developer experience and performance enhancements

immediately before the paragraph about password expiration warnings.

/Joel

[1] https://postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-19-beta-1-released-3313/
[2] https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510