Re: Patching Postgres from 15.5 to 15.8

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patching Postgres from 15.5 to 15.8
Date: 2024-09-11 12:41:27
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 4:28 AM Asad Ali <asadalinagri(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Pär,
>
> Yes, it is okay to download and apply the packages you mentioned manually.
> However, I recommend that you first take a backup of your existing
> PostgreSQL data before proceeding.
>

1. OP should be backing up anyway.
2. PgBackRest (and probably others, like barman, wal-e, etc) does
"continual backups".

Thus, no need to take a pre-update backup.

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