Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2/26/22 13:34, Techsupport wrote: Thanks for your reply. Is it a good practice to upgrade / update database on production on every year ? No, it is not a good practice. Database upgrade must be treated as a project which will result in non-negligible downtime. You should upgrade to the new

Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2/26/22 10:17, Laurenz Albe wrote: *If you talking about a Windows CIFS (Network Share), you may be out of luck. That is known to be an unreliable file system that cannot be used with a database.* A crash has likely corrupted your database. (But we cannot tell for certain, because you didn't

Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Julien Rouhaud
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 12:04:19AM +0530, Techsupport wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. > Is it a good practice to upgrade / update database on production on every > year ? It's a good practice to update all the software you rely on each time a minor version is released, especially if those

Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread David G. Johnston
On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:34 AM Techsupport wrote: > > Is it a good practice to upgrade / update database on production on every > year ? > > Patches (updates) are released roughly every three months. You should apply them as soon after they are released as feasible. We (I) tend to reserve the

RE: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Techsupport
nks, -Original Message- From: Julien Rouhaud [mailto:rjuju...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:27 PM To: Techsupport Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 07:51:45PM +0

Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 19:51 +0530, Techsupport wrote: > Database data directory is configured in the network shared path. > Unexpectedly it was disconnected and up again. If you talking about a Windows CIFS (Network Share), you may be out of luck. That is known to be an unreliable file system tha

Re: 20220226-Clarification regarding delay time of PostgeSQL starting up

2022-02-26 Thread Julien Rouhaud
Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 07:51:45PM +0530, Techsupport wrote: > Hi to all, > > We are using PostgreSQL 12.3, it is running on the Windows Server. So, you're using a version released almost 2 years ago, missing 8 minor releases worth of bug fixes. In general, if you have a problem you should j