Postgres 14 leaves support in November

PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of support this November, per the project's published five-year policy. No drama, no surprise; the date has stood since 2021. The note is for the fleet, not the flagship.

Your flagship database is fine; someone owns it. The risk lives in the long tail: the managed instances provisioned per team, per project, per proof-of-concept, each defaulting to whatever major version was current at creation. A 2021-vintage project is a 14 by default, and managed does not mean upgraded; providers eventually force-migrate stragglers on their own schedule, which is the least convenient schedule available.

The half-day: query the cloud accounts for engine versions (the API makes this one call per region), sort by version, and give every 14 a named owner and a target month before November. In-place major upgrades are boring now; the work is the extension check and the application driver test, not the database.

Five-year windows are a gift, as we have said about pipelines generally: predictable exits are the cheap kind. They stay cheap only if somebody reads the calendar. Consider it read.