Is Camunda 7.13 compatible with Postgres 13?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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I have a project running on Camunda 7.13. For business reasons, I can’t upgrade Camunda to higher (minor or major).

Our solution is built on AWS and they are asking us to upgrade to Postgres 13 or higher (i.e., 14, 15).

Is Camunda 7.13 compatible with Postgres 13, will it support 14 and 15?

According to this document, it seems like it is not.

Can anyone confirm?

Thanks,
Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

Yes, you are correct. You can of course try if it works anyway for you - Postgres is pretty stable from my experience for the feature set that we use - but you would get into territory where you might see exceptions only in production.

My condolences :wink:

Cheers,
Thorben

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Hi @segura2794,

take a look at this thread: Camunda Platform 7.17 compatibility with “Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL compatible with PostgreSQL 13” - #2 by Ingo_Richtsmeier

Hope this helps, Ingo

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Hello Thorben,

Thank you for your quick response.

Seems like you have been working with Camunda for a long time!

I would like to ask you off the record, if the test suite (shared by @Ingo_Richtsmeier) passed:

How comfortable would you feel using a Postgres version that is not officially supported by Camunda in Production environments?

Since upgrading Camunda to higher version is not possible (at the moment), would you try to keep v12 permanently?

Thank you again,
Daniel S.

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Hey Ingo,

Thanks for your support!

Seems like you’re also a veteran at Camunda. I checked the thread you shared and the test suite’s documentation.

I was particularly interested in the following bit:

To make a statement regarding Camunda Platform support, we need to understand if technology X is one of the technologies we already support or different technology.
[…]
If you want to make sure that a given database works well with the Camunda Platform, you can run the test suite against this database.

Does this mean the Camunda team uses this test suite to base itself and officially confirm what versions are compatible with a given Camunda Engine version?

If the test suite passed and off the record, how confident would you be in using in Production a Postgres version beyond what’s officially supported by the Camunda engine?

Thanks again,
Daniel S.

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Hi @segura2794,

a database is a black box in my daily work. It’s hard to predict a result without any tests.

If the test suite passed successfully, you can use the database in your production environment.

Hope this helps, Ingo