Episode Details

Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres minor releases — how the schedule works, options for upgrading to them, and the importance of reading the release notes.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19 released (announcement) https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/ 
• PostgreSQL versioning policy https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ 
• PostgreSQL 14.4 release notes (most recent minor release not on the usual schedule) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/14.4/ 
• Minor release roadmap https://www.postgresql.org/developer/roadmap/ 
• Our last episode on upgrades (major and minor) https://postgres.fm/episodes/upgrades  
• All versions of Postgres https://bucardo.org/postgres_all_versions.html 
• Why upgrade? (Useful tool by depesz) https://why-upgrade.depesz.com/ 
• Stop and start Postgres faster https://postgres.fm/episodes/stop-and-start-postgres-faster 
• WAL and checkpoint tuning https://postgres.fm/episodes/wal-and-checkpoint-tuning  
• Postgres CVE-2024-4317 and how to fix the system views (5 mins of Postgres by Lukas Fittl) https://youtube.com/watch?v=fLwVvJ3fKdA 
• Our episode on NULL https://postgres.fm/episodes/nulls-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-unknown 
• What should we do for episode 100? https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/1cn8ajh/what_should_we_do_for_episode_100_of_postgres_fm/ 

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