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The release notes for PostgreSQL 19 (scheduled for official release in October 2026) contain a section titled "Migration to ...

"It works on my machine"—9 places where the same code and commands silently take on different meanings depending on where they run

"It works on my machine." I'm sure you've said it or heard it at least once—in code reviews, in chat, or during incident post ...