The reverts will continue until morale improves

Better to revert than lose a community that is invested in your ecosystem that starts looking elsewhere. I congratulate the team in acknowledging and doing the right thing. As a developer myself, I know it is a painful thing to do but important to listen to the community.

For those not familiar with the attention economy; the headline is clickbate and not indicative of the articles point.

I’ve experienced this myself. I’ve had to downgrade my opinion of my own code. LLMs are great at pointing out the edge cases that you might have taken years to find. Honestly feels quite dispiriting but we move on.

Seems like this is more about the introduction of LLM code reviews that has found edge cases that would have otherwise been missed and fixed as they appeared over years in the future. The issue is that the volume of issues has been beyond what people could do in time.

Reverts kind of suck when it's your feature getting reverted, no doubt. But for something as foundational as Postgres, the more reverts the better...

I’m not sure I like the headline.

A bunch of features that made it to beta turned out not to be in a state that could be made satisfactory for release time and so was reverted.

That seems to me to be the right thing to do. Unfortunate, but the right thing to do.

“[something] will continue until morale improves” is usually a sacastic dig at tone deaf and incompetent leadership (e.g, “firing will continue until morale improves”)

I don’t think that is fair to say here.

I don’t get the meaning of the article subject.

This is a strong endorsement of postgres; it shows they take quality control seriously.

> as far as I can tell, this situation is not due to “vibe coding”. This code was written well before that was a possibility.

Since people refuse to read things on HN, I might as well bubble up this particular bullet point.

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is it really necessary to keep using new version of postgres and to keep developing them? is it not done at this point?