# Database schema compatibility between older versions and 13

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329 "2020-07-06T12:54:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Darkhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Darkhan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Darkhan)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329/1 "2020-07-06T12:54:08Z")

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@Ryan Petrello hopefully you can answer this.

Is a db migration from v6.1 of AWX to 13 going to succeed? Is there a way to do it if it won’t work directly?

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**Author:** ![John\_W](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@John\_W](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_W)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329/2 "2020-07-17T05:02:52Z")

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I’m curious about this as well.

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**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329/3 "2020-07-17T13:16:30Z")

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I’d _expect_ this to work, but it’s a pretty big jump, so I’d probably recommend backing up your postgres database first just in case something goes wrong.

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**Author:** ![Darkhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Darkhan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Darkhan)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/database-schema-compatibility-between-older-versions-and-13/33329/4 "2020-07-24T17:27:50Z")

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Coming back to this, I confirm it worked without any issues.