PostgreSQL: Test Infrastructure and Protocol Fixes
PostgreSQL development focused on improving test reliability and fixing edge-case protocol limitations. Three targeted fixes addressed XML test maintenance, high-parameter query handling, and documentation cleanup.
Duration: PT2M8S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from PostgreSQL.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: PostgreSQL
- Published: 2026-06-15T13:04:31Z
- Audio duration: PT2M8S
Transcript excerpt
This excerpt keeps the crawler page concise. Listen to the episode or use the RSS feed for the full update.
Good morning, this is your PostgreSQL development briefing for June 15th, 2026.
Today's activity centers on infrastructure improvements and edge-case fixes that strengthen PostgreSQL's reliability and maintainability.
The most significant change addresses a protocol limitation that affected prepared statements with large parameter counts. Commit e051188 by Heikki Linnakangas fixes an issue where queries with more than 7,498 parameters would fail during the describe prepared operation. The problem stemmed from parameter…
On the testing front, Michael Paquier's commit b78cd2b streamlines XML regression tests by reducing expected output files from three to two. The change eliminates special handling for libxml2 version 2.9.3 differences and adds early test exit conditions when XML support isn't available. This simplifies test…
A smaller documentation cleanup by Tom Lane removes a stale entry for a deprecated aclitem operator that was already removed from the catalogs. While minor, this type of documentation hygiene prevents confusion for developers consulting the function reference.
All three changes are being backpatched through version 14, indicating these are stability improvements…