How to Works with Centos

Hello,

The company I’m working for develops a product which uses Centos 6/7
(different versions of the product) and also uses Vertica and PostgreSQL.

During the course of the development of the latest version of our product,
we ran into problems that lead us to contact Vertica’s R&D team, which in
turn suggested we upgrade our database to the latest version as the current
one is not supported.

When the product was first developed we used PostgreSQL 9.2, and after
upgrading to Centos 7 we considered upgrading our PostgreSQL version as
well.

Trying to learn from the aforementioned incident, we floated idea of
upgrading our PostgreSQL version to the latest one in order to get the
performance improvement, latest features, bug fixes and *support*.

Upon doing so, our DevOps team in response insisted (and still insists)
that we keep using version 9.2 as it is part of the Centos 7 distribution,
and they believe that version to be “best practice”, even though PostgreSQL
9.2 is *no longer supported*.

My question is:

Is working with the default distribution’s version (9.2) really the “best
practice”, even though it is no longer supported?

I have looked for documentation regarding the matter but could not find any
answers. I would greatly appreciate your assistance with the matter.

Thanks in advance,

Benjamin