PostgreSQL 19, usually due between mid-September and mid-October, was moved to 19 November 2026 and several planned features were pulled; committer Robert Haas blamed bugs found by AI, as back-patched fixes on the stable branch rose from 724 to 1,169.

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Hardware Busters: PostgreSQL 19 slips to November 19 as AI-found bugs swamp its human reviewers
Published by hwbusters.comRecorded Nov 5, 2026
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Supports: Maintainers can’t keep up: PostgreSQL delayed its whole release because fixing AI-found bugs swallowed its reviewers’ time.
- A reason for “Give maintainers more time”
Supports: AI-drafted patches are often wrong or below a project’s standards, so maintainers still have to review every one.
- A reply in “Keep the deadline, make the finders fix it”