Re: Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Erik Jones wrote:
>> I really hope you meant upgrades to 8.2.x. And, no, it's not worth
>> waiting. Upgrade at the soonest available opportunity, expecially the
>> 7.4.x servers.

> I don't really agree with this. If he is running 7.4.16 there very well
> may be zero compelling reason for him to upgrade.

Really? There are any number of anecdotal reports of massive speed
improvements between 7.x and various 8.x versions. Not to mention a
few feature improvements.

Now it could well be that none of those affect the OP but 8.3 will have
the particular shade of magic pixie dust his queries need. But it seems
at least as likely that 8.3 will be no significant improvement over 8.2
for him. Without any real details about his app, you can't call it
either way.

I tend to agree with Erik that if you have a window now to upgrade off
of 7.x, you should do it, rather than waiting for the next release.

regards, tom lane