On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM Bala M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Any advice, recommendations, or shared experiences from others who have >> performed similar migrations would be greatly appreciated. > > > Some related advice: put some system in place to make sure you are always > running the latest revision in whatever major version you end up. See: > > https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ > > In particular, note this part: > > *The community considers performing minor upgrades to be less risky than > continuing to run an old minor version.* > Not only that, but applying minor version update RPMs is *fast*. Last weekend, this took 12 seconds to run: alias suip='sudo -iupostgres' suip pg_ctl stop -mfast -wt9999 \ && sudo yum install -y Pg17.6_RHEL8/*rpm \ && suip pg_ctl start -wt9999 \ && psql -Xc "select version()" -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
