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* Re: postgres in swap space
@ 2025-11-17 21:41  Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
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From: Adrian Klaver @ 2025-11-17 21:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>

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

> 
> -- 
> Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.
> Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
> <Redacted> lobster!


-- 
Adrian Klaver
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* Re: postgres in swap space
@ 2025-11-18 00:18  Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
  parent: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Ron Johnson @ 2025-11-18 00:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected] <[email protected]>

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.

-- 
Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.
Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
<Redacted> lobster!


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