Upgrading

Seatsurfing supports automated in-place upgrades. When starting a newer version of Seatsurfing backend with an existing database, the database schema version is determined and required schema upgrades are performed automatically.

Note: Downgrades are not supported and may result in startup failures and corrupt data!

Steps to upgrade

1. Backup your existing Seatsurfing database. Example:
   pg_dumpall -U seatsurfing' > ./seatsurfing_db.psql
2. Shut down the running Seatsurfing backend Docker container.
3. Start the newer version of the Seatsurfing backend with the existing database.