[oi-dev] Future of PostgreSQL on OpenIndiana

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:16 AM Andreas Wacknitz <a.wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> at the moment PostgreSQL 9.6 is our version that is being used for all
> packages that need PostgreSQL. This version is not supported upstream
> for some months now. The oldest supported version is 10 and this would
> be the obvious new version to use for us.
> Alas, obsoleting a PostgreSQL version in OpenIndiana means some work to
> be done and it looks like nobody is interested enough to do this work
> regularly.
>
> So, my question is how we should proceed with PostgreSQL. Obsoleting 9.6
> and using 10 as our default would mean that in less than 9 months
> according to https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ we will need
> to touch PostgreSQL again. We will need a volunteer to do this or we
> might think about skipping some versions of PostgreSQL now.
>
> What is your opinion?
>

I went from 9.6 to 11 in Tribblix some time ago. I'm now just about to go to
postgres 13 or 14 (14 assuming I don't find any incompatibilities).

I recommend you go forward as far as you can, otherwise you end up doing the
migration over and over.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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