mehrau

That looks absolutely normal

Yes buy the more high available you do the more it costs and it's not like this happens every week.

They could provide a upgrader.

It's a scale issue. If one does it for all, less work for everyone :)

Nope. It doesn't say why the process itself is cumbersome.

They just state that it is for various reasons.

And I'm not even talking about upgrading without downtime I mean the problem that you can't just replace 14 with 15 without preparing the DB upfront.

Anyone knows why upgrading postgres is shit?

I love postgres but every major upgrade needs weird interventions...