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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Patching Postgres from 15.5 to 15.8
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:41:27 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 4:28 AM Asad Ali <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pär,
>
> Yes, it is okay to download and apply the packages you mentioned manually.
> However, I recommend that you first take a backup of your existing
> PostgreSQL data before proceeding.
>

1. OP should be backing up anyway.
2. PgBackRest (and probably others, like barman, wal-e, etc) does
"continual backups".

Thus, no need to take a pre-update backup.

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