Re: [GENERAL] Finally upgrading to 9.6!

On 10/18/2017 05:57 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:46 AM, David G. Johnston
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com <mailto:david.g.johnston@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The contributors do an excellent job but the reality of this
>     community is that a critical mass of people do not start seriously
>     testing and using a new version until it is officially released. 
>     The first couple of bug-fix releases are thus, unfortunately, likely
>     to be non-trivial as the masses flex the system at scales and using
>     workloads that were not known or available to the developers.  Its a
>     balancing act for most and falling on the side of waiting for a few
>     point releases before promoting to production is, I suspect, common.
> 
> I support the policy of using caution with regards to new versions. They
> are often thought of as "bleeding edge" for the reason described by
> David G Johnston. The fact that PostgreSQL 10 was only released this
> month is critical and therefore is should not be a production server. It
> should be used as development, or QA, at best.

No, the Betas and RC should have been used in development and QA.
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