Re: Downgrade pgsql 17 to pgsql 12 question

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: Ashish Mukherjee <ashish(dot)mukherjee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Downgrade pgsql 17 to pgsql 12 question
Date: 2025-09-26 15:13:57
Message-ID: 4063195.1758899637@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
> On 9/26/25 05:18, Ashish Mukherjee wrote:
>> I have a strange requirement to downgrade from pgsql 17 to pgsql 12.
>> This is because we found in production certain incompatibilities between
>> both versions for our database. It should have been caught in testing
>> but was not.

> What are the incompatibilities?
> Might be easier to deal with those then doing the below.

Yeah ... sitting on a PG release that's already a year beyond EOL
is not a sustainable practice. You should consult the last several
release notes for v13 and reflect on the likelihood that most of those
bugs also exist in v12.

regards, tom lane

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