Upgrades
Nikolay and Michael discuss major and minor version Postgres upgrades — what they are, how often they come out, and how regularly we should be upgrading.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Postgres versioning policy
- why-upgrade (by depesz)
- postgresqlco.nf (by Ongres)
- postgresql.conf comparison (by Rustproof Labs)
- pg_upgrade
- Logical replication
- CHECKPOINT
- amcheck
- Locale data changes (e.g. glibc upgrades)
- ANALYZE
- Upgrades are hard (summary of panel discussion by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum)
- spilo
- Recent pgsql hackers discussion about using logical and pg_upgrade together
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