Re: Upgrading 9.1.17 to which version?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: f(dot)venchiarutti(at)ocado(dot)com
Cc: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading 9.1.17 to which version?
Date: 2019-05-16 17:53:59
Message-ID: CAKFQuwaMUgaGFCEeSzo8mpgaO1xu24x-YCEaXuoUNXg5d5VwkQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:38 AM Fabio Ugo Venchiarutti <
f(dot)venchiarutti(at)ocado(dot)com> wrote:

> On 16/05/2019 18:20, Ron wrote:
> > On 5/16/19 4:36 AM, nigel(dot)andersen(at)gmx(dot)com wrote:
> >> but I wonder whether that might be an easier/more reliable option from
> >> an install and point of view and certainly preferable in the long
> >> term. Any advice on where to go?
> >
> > 11.x would be best, since it's EOL is furthest in the future.
> > 9.6 would be best, because it's had more bug-fix releases.
> >
>
> Aren't all important bugfixes backported to every non-EOL affected
> majors at once?

More bug-fix-only releases means that more time has gone by to find and fix
the bugs in older versions without a corresponding increase in undiscovered
bugs that results from moving to the next major release.

David J.

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