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by tracker1 266 days ago
Yeah, I was going to mention, just upgrading between PG versions can be a bit of a pain. Dump/Restore really seems like a less than stellar option of you have a LOT of data. I mean you can stream through gzip/bzip to save space but still.

I often wish that Firebird had a license that people found friendlier to use as it always felt like a perfect technical option for many use cases from embedded to a standalone server. PG has clearly eclipsed it at this point though.
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markusw 266 days ago
On the other hand, and especially if migrating from SQLite, there's typically not _that_ much data. Even hundreds of GBs would probably be okay? Drives are so fast these days. Would be interesting to benchmark.
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tracker1 266 days ago
Maybe that's fair... just feels like a pain when I want to update an app, I have to jump through a few hoops as opposed to just updating the PostgreSQL version in a docker-compose or k8s config.

Would be nice if PG could at least automagically forward update when it starts and a database is from a prior version.

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WayToDoor 265 days ago
https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade
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markusw 266 days ago
Yeah, totally agreed. I'll have to look into that. I've really enjoyed the stability of SQLite, down to the file format.
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