Maybe that's fair... just feels like a pain when I want to update an app, I have to jump through a few hoops as opposed to just updating the PostgreSQL version in a docker-compose or k8s config.

Would be nice if PG could at least automagically forward update when it starts and a database is from a prior version.

https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade

Yeah, totally agreed. I'll have to look into that. I've really enjoyed the stability of SQLite, down to the file format.