Last time, we installed PostGIS on top of PostgreSQL. Today, I will complement this article by describing how someone can upgrade PostGIS on Ubuntu. A detailed description can be found at postgis.net and should be referred to in parallel. Let me first define our scenario and goal: An artificial customer wants his PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL 13 […]

Recently, PostgreSQL 13 was released. People are asking what are best ways upgrading and updating PostgreSQL 12 or some other version to PostgreSQL 13. This blog post covers how you can move to the latest release. Before we get started, we have to make a distinction between two things: Updating PostgreSQL Upgrading PostgreSQL Let’s take […]

© Laurenz Albe 2019 The biggest change in PostgreSQL v12 from the viewpoint of backward compatibility is that recovery.conf has been absorbed into postgresql.conf. This article describes the changes and how you can adapt to them. Getting rid of recovery.conf Up to now, the presence of the file recovery.conf was the trigger for PostgreSQL to […]