Lemmy Cafe will be having its database upgraded.

Reasons

• PostgreSQL 17 has been released and the changelog is promising a lot of IO improvements. Lemmy sure could use it given the constant stream of small events flowing in.

Plan

• Point nginx to the maintenance page
• Shut down PostgreSQL 16
• Run the upgrade tool
• Start up PostgreSQL 17
• Point nginx to lemmy

Expected downtime

About an hour, if things go well. More if not so.

Will try to keep the maintenance page updated.

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