Postgresql Driver Update

[Omur Ozbahceliler]

Hello, 

I'm upgrading our JIRA6.3 instance to JIRA7.10 shortly. 

I was wondering if it is worth upgrading the default posgresql driver to PostgreSQL JDBC Driver 42.2.2. Would that be beneficial?

If it is beneficial, do I change "<database-type>postgres72</database-type>" to something else or leave it as it is? I couldn't find any specific documentation for that. 

Thank you

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Omur, 

The database driver comes bundled automatically so you shouldn't need to upgrade it.

As Ricardo mentioned, the proper upgrade path is to 7.0* first, and then 7.10.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon

[Omur Ozbahceliler]

Thank you Shannon, 

I will leave the default driver in place. 

Omur

[Ricardo Caeiro]

Hi Omur,

Please also keep in mind that upgrading Jira to 7.10 from versions beneath Jira 7.0 is a major upgrade. So first upgrade to a 7.0.(...) version before going to the latest version. 

[Omur Ozbahceliler]

Hello Ricardo, 

Thank you for that. Sorry my message probably wasn't clear enough. I already took a copy of our production and upgraded it as a test environment. I have a fully functional test JIRA7.10 at the moment.