Re: Upgrading from 11 to 13

On 3/30/21 8:06 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 02:53:10PM +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:34:34PM +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Le mar. 30 mars 2021 à 16:10, Susan Joseph <sandajoseph(at)verizon(dot)net> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>      I am currently using PostgreSQL 11.2 and would like to try and upgrade it
>>>>      to the latest version 13.  Can I go straight from 11 to 13 or do I need to
>>>>      upgrade to 12 first and then to 13?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can go straight to 13.
>>
>>> We get this question often.  Why do people feel they need to upgrade to
>>> intermediate releases?  If we knew, maybe we could better clarify this.
>>
>> I believe this is coming from the Oracle world. You can, e.g.not directly go from 9 to18. There are supported upgrade paths and you need to stick to those, but they are documented.
>
> What other software needs to upgrade through all intermediate versions?
>

Many variations of OS'es, though not all. One of the benefits of Ubuntu
is that you can jump from x.LTS to y.LTS over intermediate versions.

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