On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:05 -0500, Stephen Haddock wrote:
> When upgrading an older version of postgres, version 8.4 for example, to a newer
> version such as 9.6, does the data have to be migrated immediately?
Since nobody mentioned that explicitly: do not upgrade to 9.6.
If you upgrade, move to v13.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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