Risks and possible blockers on running Atlassian Jira on incompatible database

[Teemu Hatula]

Hi,

I'm planning on unifying our common services and infrastructure, and I noticed that I would have to run Jira 7.2.x on PostgreSQL 9.5 until I get to upgrade Jira.

I know and fully understand that this would go against Atlassian recommendations, but would it run for a month or two with production like sanity? As far as I understood from our database admin, there aren't that many differences between 9.4 and 9.5 Postgres.

-Teemu

[Keri · Accepted solution]

Hi Teemu, 

Thanks for asking, we've had some reports (see the original feature request: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-59726) of Jira working using this version. 

If you're running an unsupported database, there's no guarantee that all functionality will work correctly - if the functionality doesn't work as a result of the database version - then it wouldn't be raised as a bug at Atlassian, the resolution would be to use a supported database platform instead. 

We test against the supported platforms, which is why they're recommended, if you do decide to do this - then I would definitely recommend setting up a staging environment and testing it out first - this way your production users should avoid any surprises. 

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Keri