Hi, GitLab newbie here, we use GitLab 16.0, the Postgres is version 13 end-of-life. Is there an easy way to upgrade database from 13.x to 16.x Or should we upgrade to GitLab 17/18. That would be nice but I am not sure how difficult it is.

You should definitely upgrade to GitLab 18, the newest version of that is supported and security fixes are solved in the newest versions. The thing is that GitLab 18 only supports PostgreSQL 16 (it’s both minimum and maximum), there are probably also versions that are the latest/earliest PostgreSQL …

Your upgrades will need to follow the upgrade path anyway, which will most likely mean certain Gitlab 16.x and 17.x versions before you are able to get to 18.x anyway. It’s explained in the Gitlab documentation, and there is a Gitlab upgrade path tool you can use to find that out as well. Dependin…

If you just use the bundled version you (mostly) don’t have to care about the included version of Postgres. The only reason you’re on an outdated Postgres is that you’re on a outdated GitLab. (I say mostly, because there are cases where you will want to care, I was in one of those situations years …

I am upgrading following the upgrade path of GitLab, slowly as want to test the upgrade before going to next version. The database is upgraded to 14 now, the /opt/gitlab/embedded/postgresql/13 directory still there, is it safe to just delete it? Checking the /opt/gitlab/embeded/bin everything is po…

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trippletee96 November 27, 2025, 3:54am 3

Thanks Grove,

On the current system, Postgres 13 is bundled with GitLab 16. Can I upgrade using the GitLab 18 for example and it will setup the bundled Postgres as required and it will do any migration required?

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