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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: 0.001s | 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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throwaway918299 ◴[18 Oct 24 01:07 UTC] No.41875465[source]▶
Here’s another reason to upgrade: your version is end of life and your cloud provider forced it.

Thank you Amazon!

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mkesper ◴[18 Oct 24 06:40 UTC] No.41876897[source]▶
Yes, this is actually a good thing and comes with warnings beforehand.
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1. throwaway918299 ◴[18 Oct 24 11:16 UTC] No.41878309[source]▶
I agree. It helped me completely bypass any discussion from management about “not high enough priority”. Amazon definitely did me a favour in many ways.