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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: postgres in swap space
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:18:36 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 11/17/25 13:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 18:25 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
> >      > Can someone point me to any doc describing why and how much space
> >     postgres uses on the swap of a debian machine ?
> >      > it's an old postgres 10, because it is used by a product for
> >     which only this version is certified.
> >      > (no comment on that, please)
> >
> >     I'm biting down a comment.
> >
> >
> > "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" works just fine (until it doesn't).
>
> The problem is when it doesn't work anymore, the work load to move to a
> newer version is that much greater.


That's my point.  If it just *kept* working, there would be no problem.


> Keeping the version within spitting
> distance of the latest supported version, to me, is a good idea.
>

As much as people love to complain about how useless PCI DSS is (see
the recent thread on TDE), there's one benefit: ensuring that companies
keep computers patched and running supported software.

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