Re: postgres in swap space

On 11/17/25 13:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at 
> <mailto:laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 18:25 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
>      > Can someone point me to any doc describing why and how much space
>     postgres uses on the swap of a debian machine ?
>      > it's an old postgres 10, because it is used by a product for
>     which only this version is certified.
>      > (no comment on that, please)
> 
>     I'm biting down a comment.
> 
> 
> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" works just fine (until it doesn't).

The problem is when it doesn't work anymore, the work load to move to a 
newer version is that much greater. Keeping the version within spitting 
distance of the latest supported version, to me, is a good idea.

> 
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