RE: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/116342005475273681

Also for young people: please please please do yourselves a favor for your future selves and listen to what this man has to say.

The complexity most of us (you, actually, but I'll say us because I'm a polite chap 😉 ) are building is going to come crashing down. It's not 'wether' it will, it is 'when' it will.

@jpmens

This is about half the reason I prefer to use text-file wikis like Dokuwiki rather than database-dependent systems. If you have filesystem access, the directory layout and text files make sense by themselves and are readable, processable and editable by thousands of tools.

Will Postgresql v37 import v12 databases without significant issues? ... maybe. Maybe not. Odds are good that a major incompatible formal change will happen along the way, and they will probably build a conve rsion tool -- but two major format changes and the elder scrolls shall be lost without a wizard's intervention.