Re: Index corruption issue after migration from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9 (PostgreSQL 11 streaming replication)

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 10/24/25 21:50, David Rowley wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 at 17:36, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> I am not following, from your previous post:
> >>
> >> "Beta versions are meant for test instances. It'd be
> >> good if people encouraged their use more often rather than pushing
> >> people to defer til GA"
> >>
> >> That seems to be the opposite of what you say above.
> >
> > I think you think that because you misunderstood what I said in [1].
> > I'll rephrase it for you:
> >
> > Because people promote the .0 as not yet production-ready, it means
> > that fewer people bother testing with beta and RC versions. Lack of
> > beta testing is what causes .0 to contain more bugs than it otherwise
> > might, so my suggestion is that we should be encouraging people to run
> > beta and RC in their test environments to try to increase the
> > stability of .0 versions.
>
> Alright that I understand, though not necessarily agree with. I would
> say lack of testing has more to do with time/money management.
> Organizations don't want to spend either until: 1) They see the dust
> settle on what is going to end up in the release. 2) Whether there is
> anything interesting enough to invest both in moving to a new release.
> Maybe there is a compelling argument that can be made to get those
> organizations off the fence. I just don't what it is as you would have
> to convince them to spend time and money rather then just wait and let
> the community as a whole do the work.\
>

Contractual requirements to not run EOL software are a strong motivator to
migrate to newer versions of OS and RDBMS.

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