Re: postgres in swap space

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 11/17/25 13:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at
> > <mailto:laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 18:25 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
> > > Can someone point me to any doc describing why and how much space
> > postgres uses on the swap of a debian machine ?
> > > it's an old postgres 10, because it is used by a product for
> > which only this version is certified.
> > > (no comment on that, please)
> >
> > I'm biting down a comment.
> >
> >
> > "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" works just fine (until it doesn't).
>
> The problem is when it doesn't work anymore, the work load to move to a
> newer version is that much greater.

That's my point. If it just *kept* working, there would be no problem.

> Keeping the version within spitting
> distance of the latest supported version, to me, is a good idea.
>

As much as people love to complain about how useless PCI DSS is (see
the recent thread on TDE), there's one benefit: ensuring that companies
keep computers patched and running supported software.

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