Re: Upgrade & Rollback plan: My customer requests rollback via old-version standby (13 ↔ 17) — need community advice

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: "Vu Le (JData - HN)" <dba4(at)jprotech(dot)com(dot)vn>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrade & Rollback plan: My customer requests rollback via old-version standby (13 ↔ 17) — need community advice
Date: 2025-10-11 18:50:16
Message-ID: aOqm6FaDpWsOSCyo@momjian.us
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 08:16:42PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-10-11 at 23:02 +0700, Vu Le (JData - HN) wrote:
> > If possible, could you please share any additional best practices or
> > important considerations apart from testing the new version in a
> > staging environment?
>
> All I can think of is:
>
> - Always keep a backup around.
>
> - Read the "Migration to version x" section of the release notes of v14,
> v15, v16 and v17 before you test the application. That will give you
> ideas what areas to test particularly well.
>
> - Test your administrative procedures too. For example, v15 removed
> the exclusive online file system backup.

Agreed, and this might help for reviewing the release notes:

https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2022.html#June_13_2022

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