Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 4:15 PM Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> Re: Don Seiler
>> > > deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main
>> >
>> > Would this just be an issue for new installations on bionic? i.e. my
>> > current fleet of bionic DB servers would continue to operate, just no
>> > updates (which there haven't been any since May anyway)? We're in the
>> > middle of our migration to Ubuntu jammy but it'll be a couple months
>> yet.
>>
>> New installations should just work with the above sources line.
>>
>
> Yes, of course. I meant to ask if an existing bionic VM with PG already
> installed and running would see any issues if they don't make any
> adjustments at all.
>

This depends. PostgreSQL itself won't mind this one bit, but since the
package repository won't exist any longer (i.e., broken), when running
'apt-get update', some processes will take that status as an error in
package management.

This may break automation if the automation depends on _all_ repositories
functioning properly. For instance, you may see this as an issue if adding
the host to Canonical's ESM repositories. Chef/Puppet/Ansible/etc. might
not like it, either.
--
Aaron