On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 06:48:09PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote: >> so you have two options: >> >> 1) use the packages from yum.postgresql.org for a supported version >> 2) get commercial support for your out-of-community-support verssion >> >> but even if you do 2, that would be a preparatory step looking >> forward to upgrade to a newer version > > You need to think long-term here. The product that you are developing > and/or maintaining will need to stay around for a couple of years as > well, those are years where you should keep up with the community support > window of 5 years for a major version of PostgreSQL. That's what I do > on the stuff I work with, and the outcome is much better at the end > as there is no need to finish with a private fork of an out-of-support > version, normally at least.
+1. Someone with whom I was speaking recently mentioned that they were upgrading from 9.2 to 9.6, and that sounds like a pretty good plan to me if you want to have a release that will be supported for a while but is thought to be stable now. We're still finding bugs in v10 at a slightly alarming rate, but that will, I hope, settle down over the next few months. Meanwhile, 9.6 has been out for a year and, as far as I've seen, all indications seem to be that it's a pretty solid release. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
