{
  "id": 7550386,
  "title": "Postgres development activity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/postgres-development-activity",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-15T12:26:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://vondra.me/posts/postgres-development-activity/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Postgres development activity has seen significant growth over the years, as evidenced by various metrics. The pgsql-hackers mailing list, where patches are submitted and discussed, has experienced a surge in the number of messages, increasing from around 25 per day in 1998 to approximately 100 today. Peaks of up to 200 messages per day occur just before the feature freeze for each new major version. This growth indicates a growing community and an increasing pace of development activity.\n\nThe size of the messages has also changed over time, doubling from around 100kB to 200kB per day by 2009, and then gradually growing to approximately 2MB per day by 2016. The attachments included with messages have also grown in size, from about 10kB per message to around 80kB. A significant increase in the number of messages with attachments has been observed, rising from about 5% in 2008 to nearly 25% today.\n\nThe number of commits in the git repository, which serves as the final record of committed changes, has seen a steady growth rate, with an average of around 50 commits per week. This growth aligns with the growth in messages on the mailing list. However, there was a noticeable drop in the number of commits around 2008, coinciding with the introduction of the commitfest idea and the migration from CVS to git.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}