Re: Finally upgrading to 9.6!

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 10/18/2017 05:57 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> >
> > I support the policy of using caution with regards to new versions. They
> > are often thought of as "bleeding edge" for the reason described by
> > David G Johnston. The fact that PostgreSQL 10 was only released this
> > month is critical and therefore is should not be a production server. It
> > should be used as development, or QA, at best.
>
> No, the Betas and RC should have been used in development and QA.

I disagree with this. It isn't my company's business to test the Postgres
software in development, as much as it would be needed and appreciated by
the community. We're testing our own applications and processes, and this
should be done with a "stable" product, more or less. So I'd only ever
think to have them use an official release versus a beta or release
candidate.

That said, count me in the same camp with the "Never .0" folks. I'm
planning a mass upgrade to 9.6 soon as well and the question was raised as
to whether or not to go right to 10.0, and I quickly put that down. Oracle
DBAs have a similar rule of thumb with anything less than .2 (Oracle starts
at .1).

Don.

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Don Seiler
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