Re:Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn re...
by paulddraper on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:51PM
(#19031526)
Unless you make the ill-advised choice to use AWS Aurora :(
We did that and only then found out that despite documentation suggesting the contrary [1], there is no upgrade path for major versions of AWS Aurora PostgreSQL. You're stuck with whatever you had when you started. (Unless you want to do a pg_backup/pg_restore which could take weeks.)
We did that and only then found out that despite documentation suggesting the contrary [1], there is no upgrade path for major versions of AWS Aurora PostgreSQL. You're stuck with whatever you had when you started. (Unless you want to do a pg_backup/pg_restore which could take weeks.)
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...