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Thomas Neumann argues that Goodhart's law is breaking database benchmarks such as ClickBench, where systems increasingly optimise for the known queries, and proposes keeping benchmark queries secret or generating fresh workloads each round, as SQLStorm does, so results stay meaningful.
3 min · 753 words
The reverts will continue until morale improves
PostgreSQL committer Peter Eisentraut reflects on the unusually large wave of feature reverts after PostgreSQL 19 entered beta, why quality bar and unfinished design led to cutting ~8–10 significant features, and what that means for PostgreSQL 19 and 20.
5 min · 1,145 words