# Update pg\_partman to 5+

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-pg-partman-to-5/4874>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 10, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-pg-partman-to-5/4874 "2026-01-10T12:04:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![marknefedov](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/marknefedov/32/1001_2.png) [@marknefedov](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/marknefedov)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-pg-partman-to-5/4874/1 "2026-01-10T12:04:50Z")

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Is it possible / safe to update partman extension to the latest version on Yugabyte? Currently Yugabyte 2025.2 ships with partman 4.7, in version 5.2.0 they added support to UUIDv7 and other time-encoded ids.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_yb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/hari_yb/32/813_2.png) [@Hari\_yb](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/Hari_yb)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-pg-partman-to-5/4874/2 "2026-01-10T16:19:33Z")

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Thank you for making the ask with the use cases @marknefedov.

Can you please file a GitHub issue for this?

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**Author:** ![marknefedov](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/marknefedov/32/1001_2.png) [@marknefedov](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/marknefedov)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-pg-partman-to-5/4874/3 "2026-01-10T16:36:12Z")

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> [@marknefedov](#):
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> Currently Yugabyte 2025.2 ships with partman 4.7, in version 5.2.0 they added support to UUIDv7 and other time-encoded ids.

Sure thing

> <https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/issues/29931>
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> \### Description
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> \[Update pg\_partman to 5+\](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/update-p…g-partman-to-5/4874)
> Currently Yugabyte 2025.2 ships with partman 4.7, in version \[5.2.0\](https://github.com/pgpartman/pg\_partman/releases/tag/v5.2.0) they added support to UUIDv7 and other time-encoded ids.
> And removed requirement for pg\_partman to be installed as a superuser, that allows simplifying automated migration workflows.
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> https://github.com/pgpartman/pg\_partman/issues/528
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