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		trenchpilgrim 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Migrating from AWS to Hetzner A fun one in the cloud is "when I upgrade to a new version of Postgres, how long is the downtime and what happens to my indexes?"

mschuster91 42 days ago [–]

For AWS RDS, no big deal. Bare metal or Docker? Oh now THAT is a world of pain.

Seriously I despise PostgreSQL in particular in how fucking annoying it is to upgrade.

icedchai 41 days ago | [–]

Yep. I know folks running their own clusters on AWS EC2 instead of RDS. They're still on 3 or 4 versions back because upgrading Postgres is a PITA.

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