About upgrades

A minor upgrade is when you upgrade within your current major version of TimescaleDB. For example, when you upgrade from TimescaleDB 2.5 to TimescaleDB 2.6.

Upgrade automatically

Timescale Cloud avoids the manual work involved in updating your TimescaleDB version. Upgrades take place automatically during a maintenance window picked by you. Learn more about automatic version upgrades in Timescale Cloud.

You can upgrade your on-premise TimescaleDB installation in-place. This means that you do not need to dump and restore your data. However, it is still important that you plan for your upgrade ahead of time.

• Check which PostgreSQL version you are currently running. You might need to upgrade to the latest PostgreSQL version before you begin your TimescaleDB upgrade.

Check your version

You can check which version of TimescaleDB you are running, at the psql command prompt. Use this to check which version you are running before you begin your upgrade, and again after your upgrade is complete: