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Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?

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264 points davidgomes | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 21:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.275s | source
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justin_oaks ◴[18 Oct 24 00:36 UTC] No.41875268[source]▶
My upgrade policy for everything:

Significant security vulnerability? Upgrade

Feature you need? Upgrade

All other reasons: Don't upgrade.

Upgrading takes effort and it is risky. The benefits must be worth the risks.

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1. hinkley ◴[18 Oct 24 03:44 UTC] No.41876163[source]▶
Once your version doesn’t receive security fixes you’re one CERT advisory away from having your whole week pre-empted by an emergency upgrade.

I’ve been there with products that were still internal at the time. I can only imagine how much fun that is with a public product. But then I do have a pretty vivid imagination. We changed to periodic upgrades after that to avoid the obvious problem staring us in the face.