> no way to get it earlier?

Right. The project policy only allows to add new features to the next
major version (this is the same policy as PostgreSQL). If new features
are added to stable releases, it will bring enough confusions to
existing users which we want to avoid on the stable versions.

>  we really wanna start running this in prod.
> or is it too big for a patch version and minor only come then?

Regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS K.K.
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
>> > Amazing news! Thank you so much!
>>
>> You are welcome!
>>
>> > When can I expect it to be live in a version then ?
>>
>> It will get into v4.8, which is supposed to be released in this
>> December.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS K.K.
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/
>> Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>>
>> > Nadav Shatz
>> > Tailor Brands | CTO
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:14 AM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Nadav,
>> >>
>> >> >>   v5-0001-Fix-disable_load_balance_on_write-and-query-cache.patch
>> >>
>> >> I updated the patch to:
>> >> v2-0001-Fix-disable_load_balance_on_write-to-not-break-qu.patch
>> >>
>> >> I slightly modifies the first line of the commit message, and the file
>> >> name has been changed too. In v2 patch, I added test cases for
>> >> disable_load_balance_on_write options. Currently it includes test
>> >> cases for trans_transaction, dml_adaptive and always. Other than that,
>> >> nothing has been changed since v1. I plan to push to all supported
>> >> branches after the June minor releases.
>> >>
>> >> After finishing review for your patch, I will push your patch along
>> >> with addition to 006.memqcache so that it tests the new option.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> --
>> >> Tatsuo Ishii
>> >> SRA OSS K.K.
>> >> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/
>> >> Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>> >>
>>
>
>
> --
> Nadav Shatz
> Tailor Brands | CTO