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Comment by darksaints | Hacker News Reader

It would be nice if the Azure and AWS Postgres teams could get off their asses and release version 15 already. It has been out for several months now, and crickets.

Homebrew too, but at least they have the excuse that it is open source and unfunded.

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Same goes for GCP. Normally they release it before Christmas but version 15 still hasn’t been released.

I realise it may not be possible for many people due to their organisational requirements, but I think self-hosting is a great option when possible, and the backup story is great with pgbackrest.

Easy to upgrade when you're ready.

It can be a good thing to wait a minor version or two before upgrading to the latest major version. There's much more confidence in the release that way, some companies even have a policy along those lines.

15.1 came out in November.

15.2 came out earlier this month

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-152-147-131...

Homebrew does have Postgres 15. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/postgresql@15

It’s keg only, which shouldn’t matter, except that it does if you want to add any extensions. For example, postgis can’t be added to Postgres 15 using normal brew commands (you can if you edit it and build from scratch and link manually, but that’s kind of a nightmare). Everything is set up to treat PG14 as the default, because that is the one that is not a keg.

Just use Crunchydata. Runs in any of the clouds and gives you better options.

Stripminers have to rest too

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