Pre Upgrade Check Database Not supported Conflics with Docuemenation

Mick Portell

We are running Confluence version 7.1.1 and want to upgrade to 7.13.

The pre-upgrade check says our database version is not supported. We are running postres version 10.18. The release notes say postgres version 10 is supported. Why the conflicting information?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I think you've run into a quirk in the language in the code, rather than a direct conflict.

The pre-upgrade check is trying to tell you that your current version of Postgres is not supported on your current version of Confluence.  (In my experience, all Confluence 7s work absolutely fine on Postgres 9.4 through to 10, albeit with warnings about it not being supported)

I think you're actually in a better position to upgrade than you would be if you were on a supported Postgres (for Confluence 7.1).   When the upgrade routine runs, it's going to be running code built for and tested on Postgres 10, not having to worry about the older now-unsupported versions.  I would expect it to sail through without any database issues at all!

Of course, take a full backup first, but I'd recommend jumping straight into the upgrade, it should work fine!