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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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olavgg ◴[18 Oct 24 10:29 UTC] No.41878006[source]▶
The PostgreSQL team releases a data incompatible format every year. Do they really need to break the data format every year? In my opinion, the release model for PostgreSQL should be refactored. Breaking stuff is no fun for users, please stop doing that if you are a software developer. And if you have to, make it autonomous for the user.
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1. ttfkam ◴[18 Oct 24 15:05 UTC] No.41880088[source]▶
If you want performance to steadily increase rather than steadily decrease, the answer to your question is yes. That doesn't mean tools couldn't be better, but there are clear technical advantages to their on-disk format updates.