Ahsan Hadi: Zero Downtime In-Place Major PostgreSQL Upgrades on a Distributed PostgreSQL Cluster

In my last post I walked through a rolling major version upgrade: add a brand new node on the new version, let it join the Spock cluster, retire the old node. It works well, but it assumes you can stand up an extra server for every node you need to upgrade. A lot of customers I talk to cannot…

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