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Re:PostgreSQL upgrades are hard by minusf on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:46PM (#31877660)
even four 9's give 50 minutes a year to do maintenance work.

i am a fan of planning for maintenance. planned downtime is definitely accepted by most of the population. i mean what you gonna do?

much better a planned downtime than an outage. leaving a system to rot just because the architecture is "don't touch it while it's working" is a sure recipe for a disaster of some kind.

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Re:PostgreSQL upgrades are hard by wutwutwutwut on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:10PM (#31878330)
> even four 9's give 50 minutes a year to do maintenance work.

Just the security patching of the host OS will likely consume a bunch of those minutes.

Not sure what point you were trying to make apart from that. I am not advocating that people should leave system to rot.

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