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by baq 2599 days ago
not broken, don't fix
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There are some shockingly old releases of PostgreSQL still in production for this reason.

Security updates should push the upgrade path a little harder, but there are still cases where a database can be completely isolated from the network and that might not even matter.

I inherited a production system with a PostgreSQL 8.1 database. It's one of the most reliable systems I have.