Hi, I’m configuring an environment that is pointed at an external AWS rds instance (postgres 11.x) I notice this error when trying to backup through the UI: [2019-10-25 21:50:35] Dumping the public schema of the database... [2019-10-25 21:50:35] pg_dump: server version: 11.5; pg_dump version: 10.1…

[image] thomas_grice: Should I just use an external db that isn’t 11.x? The supported PostgreSQL version currently is 10.x. We plan on upgrading to 12.x in the next release cycle.

Google Cloud Platform provides Postgres 11 by default. Version 10 is only available as “beta”. When can we expect support for 11.x?

We plan on moving to 12.x in a few months. 11.x will be skipped.

We deployed on postgres 11 already. Can we continue using? Is backup the only feature not working? How to downgrade to 10, if we can not export/import?

As PostgreSQL is very solid on keeping features working and not trigger happy with removing features it should work, except for the backup and restore which depends on the container pg_dump version. We don’t run it, and don’t test on it, so you are on your own if any problem arises.

We were in the same boat: deployed on GCP-managed Postgres 11 because the docs called for Postgres 10+. We just ended up adding a custom command to our bootstrap to install the PG 11 client tools and swap pg_dump to use that version by default. - exec: cmd: - apt-get update && apt-…

This is a reasonable workaround, we plan to upgrade pg in our official images to 12 over the next few months

Cant backup because of version mismatch on aws

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Falco (Falco) May 12, 2020, 6:54pm 9

We now run PostgreSQL 12 update which is available in AWS RDS.

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