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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
To: Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Upgrade Ubuntu 22 -> 24 may break PostgreSQL
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 09:08:21 -0700
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On 8/31/24 19:32, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 2024-09-01 02:54, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>> 'Tis the season again.

>> As usual, a newer Ubuntu version comes with a newer Postgres version (16
>> instead of 14). Also as usual, I got a message during the upgrade that
>> Postgres 14 is obsolete,. but the binaries have been left installed and
>> I should upgrade to Postgres 16 manually ASAP.
> 
> It'd *technically* be possible to automatically run an upgrade of the
> PostgreSQL repository (via scripting?) at launch time, though just blindly
> doing it for everyone would be a *major* change of behaviour.

The OP was using the Ubuntu repo and for a given major version of Ubuntu 
that is pinned to a given major version of Postgres. I am not seeing 
changing that would go over well. Now if a user is using the PGDG repo's 
that is a different story, then you point at the repo's for the new 
Ubuntu version do an update/upgrade and you are back on track.

> Thoughts?

This is something the end user needs to work out ahead of time as there 
is an overhead in the process they need to take into consideration. 
Cranking up a new version of Ubuntu/Debian and have it take off doing 
things behind the scenes to the Postgres instance(s) would disturb me.

> 
> Regards and best wishes,
> 
> Justin Clift
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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