I appreciate your perspective, thanks. Major version bumps do seem to be difficult sometimes with pg in my limited experience.

If you are interested, I suggest this article I wrote that covers the current state of major upgrades with CloudNativePG: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/current-state-major-postgr...

> Doesn’t handle automatic failover when a node dies

Patroni, the most popular autofailover solution for Postgres, is developed in Zalando. Of course it's included in Zalando operator by default.