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Default to PostgreSQL 14 for fresh installations

Clemens Beck requested to merge 8288-default-to-pg-14 into master

What does this MR do?

Default to PostgreSQL 14 for fresh installations instead of PostgreSQL 13. No automatic upgrades are performed.

To upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 see: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/database.html#upgrade-packaged-postgresql-server

Changelog: changed

Related issues

Closes #8288 (closed)

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Test Plan

  1. Fresh install
    • Setup a fresh install
    • Confirm the postgres version is 14 postgres --version
    • Setup another fresh install with postgres['version'] = 13
    • Confirm the postgres version is 13
  2. Upgrades
    • Setup a fresh 16.6 install
    • Confirm the default postgres version is 13
    • Upgrade the node to this branch
    • Confirm the postgres version is not upgraded to 14
    • run gitlab-ctl pg-upgrade -V 14
    • Confirm the upgrade passes
    • Downgrade to pg 13 gitlab-ctl revert-pg-upgrade 13
Edited by Clemens Beck

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