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More detail on PostgreSQL versions

Ben Prescott_ requested to merge docs-bprescott-20201127-pgvers into master

What does this MR do?

Discussion with a large premium customer (SF,ZD - internal links) who generally does zero downtime updates identified a need for customers to easily determine the PostgreSQL version shipping with each Omnibus version.

Linked to the license/versions site and also highlighted that PostgreSQL patch level updates can occur in GitLab patch releases. This adds some depth to the note that the top, the consequences of which might benefit from being spelt out.

Related issues

#4808

  • problems with zero-downtime updates of PostgreSQL and extensions

#5815

  • issue I raised off the same ticket

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