# Vondra: PostgreSQL development activity

DevFeed: [Vondra: PostgreSQL development activity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vondra-postgresql-development-activity-26597.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://lwn.net/Articles/1094470/>)

Author: jzb

Published: 2026-09-15T13:20:30Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [LWN.net](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/lwn-net.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>)

## AI overview

A PostgreSQL contributor's analysis examines development activity from the late 1990s to the present. It reports roughly 50 commits per week today, compared with about 25 per week around 2010, alongside an approximately twofold increase in active committers.

## Source excerpt

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ~2010 we were doing maybe 25/week, and the trend seems to be a slow and consistent growth. The monthly average makes the trend a bit easier to spot. Which is good, although there's a lot of other important details (size of commits, are they new features or fixes, ...). It however nicely aligns with the number of active committers, which also grew ~2x between 2010 and today. So maybe that's working as expected.