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Upgrading a datastore is a massive, massive risk. It requires a lot of work, planned downtime, or some way to smear updates across the estate. The cost of any
by KaiserPro 2y ago
Upgrading a datastore is a massive, massive risk.
It requires a lot of work, planned downtime, or some way to smear updates across the estate.
The cost of any failure is very high. The benefit of any major upgrade is also vanishingly small. Unless you need a specific feature, its just not worth it.
- ttfkam 2y agoOr when the version is EOL, not getting security patches, and/or only compatible with an OS that isn't getting security updates. …or you're on AWS RDS, which will automatically bump your db cluster if it goes EOL and you ignore the notices for more than a year.