On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Jaime Casanova < jaime.casan...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 25 December 2017 at 09:39, Benyamin Guedj <benyamin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Upon doing so, our DevOps team in response insisted (and still insists) > that > > we keep using version 9.2 as it is part of the Centos 7 distribution, and > > they believe that version to be “best practice”, even though PostgreSQL > 9.2 > > is no longer supported. > > > > My question is: > > > > Is working with the default distribution’s version (9.2) really the “best > > practice”, even though it is no longer supported? > > > > clearly no, our versioning page says > (https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/): > """ > The PostgreSQL project aims to fully support a major release for five > years. After its end-of-life (EOL) month ends, a major version > receives one final minor release. After that final minor release, bug > fixing ceases for that major version. > """ > > so, if bug fixing ceases for a non-supported version it's clearly no > "best practice" to continue using it. > > 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 > I would like to add here, as your team seems more interested in packages available from CentOS, there is a third option also available that might interest you. Along with PostgreSQL 9.2 package (default) CentOS 7 project also provide PostgreSQL 9.6 but via Software Collections (SCL) that target similar problem that you are facing i.e. https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql96/ I hope that will help. Thanks. Regards, Muhammad Asif Naeem > > but even if you do 2, that would be a preparatory step looking > forward to upgrade to a newer version > > -- > Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services > >
