Why is Postgres 9.2 not supported in JIRA 7.9.2?

[Andrew Young]

We just updated to JIRA 7.9.2 on our RHEL 7.4 server and get a warning that Postgres 9.2.23 is not supported.  But according to https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/, the stock distribution for RHEL 7 is Postgres 9.2.  How can Atlassian drop support for the stock version of Postgres on RHEL 7?  Is there a serious defect in Postgres 9.2 that would push us to drop the stock version and subscribe to an alternate YUM repo to get the 9.6 bits?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It's the driver - in order to support later versions, the database driver has to be a higher version, one that does not support 7.9.2  (That was the case several versions ago, I suspect it's the same reason now)

[Moses Thomas]

@Andrew Youngsee supported versions  for 7.9.2.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/supported-platforms-938846830.html

Best!