Okay, I was not familiar with the Postgres specific terminology.

Just for context, I run Postgres on an OpenBSD host (will probably be FreeBSD in the near future) to back an instance of davical which is a caldav server used by a total of two people.

I will keep tuning in mind if I ever actually use Postgres for anything significant but for now it seems like it would probably be wasted effort.

While I'd agree that Debian is boring, it still seems to me that Postgres isn't, even with this in place upgrade tooling. I still have to remember a specific upgrade command special to Postgres.