For those that run Element server and run postgresql version older than 13 will need to update their postgresql major version.
I found these instructions by ‘maxkratz’ on their github page which worked perfectly for me to go from 11 to 16.
Hopefully this helps someone!
I like PSQL far more than Maria DB, but it is the most stupid software for upgrades. It is the reason that, whenever I can’t use SQLite, I use a NoSQL DB like Mongo - any single executable NoSQL that contains the entire DB to a single directory seems to be the common factor. Sometimes you might hit an API change, but I think the number of times I’ve had a production application break because of a NoSQL DB server software upgrade is still at 0.
I’ve spend more than a decade supporting both Postgres and MongoDB in production.
While they each have quirks, I prefer the quirks of Postgres.
I just spent a massive amount of time retooling code to deal with a MongoDB upgrade. The code upgrade is so complex because that’s where the schema is defined. No wonder MongoDB upgrades are easier— the database has externalized a lot of complexity that now becomes some coders problem to deal with.