update to 16.2

Hello,

We plan to update our customers on SuSE Linux from 11.4, 13.1, 14.1 and
15.1 to 16.2. Do I understand the release notes correct that for this
the way is only dump/restore? The release notes say:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/16.2/
...
A dump/restore is not required for those running 16.X.
...
It does not say definitely that for all other versions a dump/restore is
required.

We could even unload in the databases the ~400 tables to COPY format,
re-create the tables in a new 16.2 server and load the ~400 files (all this
relatively easy per scripts we created to migrate from Sybase and Oracle
to PostgreSQL). But I think, producing the dump with the old version,
setup new cluster and load the dump with the 16.2 sql command will work.

Any comments?

matthias

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