On 2024-09-01 02:54, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
'Tis the season again.

Ubuntu 24.04.1 has just been released, so many Ubuntu LTS users will now
be prompted to upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04.

A word of warning to those who use Postgresql from the Ubuntu repo (not
PGDG):

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Postgres 14 is obsolete,.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.

Some people would likely love it, while others would be horrified (etc).

That being said, if we announce it ahead of time as a feature of a major
release (ie PG 18 or something), and if we have a clear way to not
automatically upgrade (a variable in postgresql.conf?), then we might be
able to solve this problem ~permanently.

We'd also need to figure out how to handle (say) rebuilding of indexes
that need updating between major versions and stuff like that.

Thoughts?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


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