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Nikolay Samokhvalov

The Future of Code
July 13, 2026

Global Indexes, A Reversed Commit, And A Dead Extension Model: How Postgres Features Actually Reach Users

Three practitioners working at different points in the Postgres ecosystem explain why the project's most requested features take the longest to arrive, what happens to code between the commit and the release note, and why one of them stopped writing extensions entirely.

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The idea of extensions has died, basically. Managed services have only a strict set of extensions, and that's it. If you develop your own extension, you need to be super lucky.

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