PGX Longevity: Extended Support for PostgreSQL EOL Versions
PGX Longevity offers extended commercial support for PostgreSQL versions that have reached their end-of-life (EOL), helping organizations maintain security and compliance while they plan upgrades. The service provides critical patches, troubleshooting, and expert assistance for unsupported PostgreSQL releases.
Background
PGX Longevity is a commercial service from PGExperts that provides security patches and bug fixes for PostgreSQL versions that have reached their official end-of-life (EOL) from the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. The PostgreSQL community releases a new major version each year and supports each version for five years; after that, no further updates are issued. Organizations running legacy applications tied to unsupported versions (e.g., 9.6, 10, 11) face compliance and security risks without this extended support. PGExperts is a database consultancy founded by longtime PostgreSQL contributor Bruce Momjian, who also co-founded the PostgreSQL Core Team. The service covers custom patches, backported fixes, and priority support, essentially bridging the gap until the organization can upgrade. This matters because many enterprises run critical workloads on older PostgreSQL versions and cannot easily migrate due to application compatibility or regulatory constraints.