[Alex3917]

Postgres users actually generally upgrade faster than those using other databases because there are a lot of new features each year. But once your database gets huge then upgrading still becomes a pain, so that's why they keep providing security support and bug fixes for older versions as well.

[hans_castorp]

pg_upgrade with the --link option is extremely fast and doesn't really depend on the size of the database.

[Alex3917]

Interesting. I just use RDS and it always seems to take 15+ min even though our database is tiny.