[kneebonian]

Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.

[mschuster91]

Oracle fucks you in pricing, PostgreSQL in the effort required to pull off a minor version upgrade.

[justinclift]

What's the situation where minor version upgrades are giving you trouble?

Asking because it's not supposed to be troublesome. In theory (!), minor version upgrades don't require any change to the on-disk data, so you should be able to just upgrade your PG binaries then restart the database.