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Subject: Re: Guidance Required for PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade in
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To: Jaya Sandeep <jayasandy0909@gmail.com>,
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On 4/17/26 6:20 AM, Jaya Sandeep wrote:
>   Upgrading to  16 version,  guidance on this .

Ron's point is that you are currently at Postgres 14.6 and there are 
approximately 4 years of bug fixes to the current stable 14.22 version 
as seen here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release.html

It would be good idea to bring the 14 instance to as an up to date state 
as possible before moving on to latest major version(18), which in 
itself is a jump of 4 major versions.

As to the major to major upgrade I would suggest reading:

https://clusterlabs.org/projects/pacemaker/doc/3.0/Pacemaker_Administration/html/

and

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/pgupgrade.html


> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Neelam Jaya Sandeep
> 9492727845
> 
> On Fri, 17 Apr, 2026, 18:43 Ron Johnson, <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com 
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM Jaya Sandeep
>     <jayasandy0909@gmail.com <mailto:jayasandy0909@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     [snip]
> 
>         *Details :*
>         Current version of PostgreSQL is *14.6 *
> 
> 
>     Step #1 is to update to fix the 3.5 years of bugs from 14.6 to
>     14.22.  Each node update should take no more than 5 minutes.
> 
>     -- 
>     Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.
>     Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
>     <Redacted> lobster!
> 


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Adrian Klaver
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