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Re:Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018) by ComodoHacker on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:28AM (#26540476)
It could be more than one downtime per year, if we take security patches into account.
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Re:Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018) by darksaints on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:45AM (#26540691)
Security patches are minor upgrades...the upgrades only cause significant downtime if there are large changes in on-disk representation, which shouldn't happen for a security patch.
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