HN Explorer

Ask HN: Is AWS Backing Away from PostgreSQL?

4 points by ccleve ↗ HN
I just went to Amazon Web Services RDS to spin up an Aurora Postgres-compatible instance. That's no longer an option. They offer MySQL-compatible instances only.

It seems that they are not moving very fast on supporting new versions of Postgres for regular RDS instances, either. Postgres 12 was released in October, and 12.1 in November. They're still on 11.5.

Does anyone have an insights on what's going on? Postgres 12 is pretty important for us.

7 comments

[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 34.3 ms ] thread
dekhn
Have you asked your account manager? I find they are often pretty open with information about forthcoming features (including giving you early access).
ccleve
We don't have an account manager. Our account is too small. AWS doesn't usually respond to questions in the forums, either.
mattbillenstein
What is the important feature in 12 that you need?

I've usually run PG outside of RDS on i3 instances as I didn't want to rely that heavily on EBS due to past cascading outages with it.

ccleve
There are a number of features. The one most useful one is generated columns, which will allow use to get rid of a number of triggers.
wazokazi
It may have been a glitch. I can create new Aurora Postgres instances, with version 11.4 as the newest supported. RDS (non-Aurora) instances have support for 11.5.

None of the big 3 cloud vendors support PG 12 yet.

AWS generally is the first to provide support for newer versions, and they usually lag the PG release dates by 6-9 months for RDS and over 12 months for Aurora.

[Edit] GCP Versions: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/db-versions Azure Versions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/concepts-s... AWS Versions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...

ccleve
Ah, perhaps it was a glitch. I tried it just now and the Postgres option appears.
PeterZaitsev
It will be interesting how quickly Amazon Aurora will be able to support newer PostgreSQL versions. With MySQL adding support for MySQL 8 is taking years...