Re: Keeping Postgresql-9.6 on Buster

Am 10. Juli 2019 17:39:30 MESZ schrieb Phil Endecott <spam_from_pgsql_lists@chezphil.org>:
>Dear Experts,
>
>I have a couple of cloud servers currently running PostgreSQL-9.6 on
>Debian Stretch with streaming replication from one to the other.
>
>I'd like to upgrade these to Buster, but keep PostgreSQL-9.6 for the
>time being.  I think the packages at apt.postgresql.org will help
>me to do this.  Can anyone offer any advice?

Yes. This is one of the use cases for that repository.

>In particular, the Buster release notes mention an issue with
>locales.  Is this something that I need to worry about even if I
>keep PostgreSQL-9.6?

Still affected.

 How does this interact with my replication
>setup?  Can I replicate (temporarily) to an machine that has been
>upgraded to the new locales from one that hasn't?

No.

Christoph