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
