regarded as a major release with features with interest to those with
large databases. The updates are extensive and the best source of info
is in the release notes. Enjoy and direct questions to database@!
Release notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release.html#RELEASE-7-4
PR: ports/59403, ports/59404, ports/59393, ports/59394,
ports/59395, ports/59397, ports/59398, ports/59402, &&
ports/59401
Submitted by: maintainer
Approved by: marcus (portmgr@ hat)
port (files/pgsql.sh.tmpl) lacks a parameter in the
restart option, causing logs to be send to stdout,
instead of the log file.
Submitted by: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar>
Approved by: maintainer
PR: 53142
Approved by: fjoe (implicit)
* Pass the -s option to pg_ctl, to avoid clobbering the display.
It will show error messages only.
* Echo the port name after shutdown.
No functional changes, no PORTREVISION.
* Move the call to configure.postgresql7 from pre-fetch to pre-extract, so it
won't hang while performing batch fetch operations (like portupgrade -F)
* Add some TCL related files to pkg-plist.tcl, and add a PLIST_SUB in the
Makefile to register the correct tcl version in the plist.
* Do not start postgresql if the database directory does not exist: the
startup sequence could hang because of this.
* Use the "-s" option when starting postgresql with pg_ctl, so it won't
display informational messages. Display only the port name, as do other
packages startup scripts.
Approved by: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Many bugfixes and cosmetic changes
Changes by Scrappy and me
My additional changes:
- had to link libpgtcl.so with the crypt library to get rid of the
pgaccess error message, that crypt is missing
- had to add -i option in the startup script, so that pgaccess is
able to connect to the postmaster process
- removed all unnecessary patches
- updated PLIST
Thanks to the postgresql developement team, who did a great job to
simplify the postgresql port, by applying the patches and making
the autoconf mechanism more consistent.
Submitted by: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
background because of the -S option.
- remove the -D datadir option, it's meaningless, because the pgsql
user environment overwrites it with the PGDATA env variable.
Since this is important and might cause some headache, I mentioned
this in ~pgsql/.profile and the startup script.
Submitted by: John Fiber
Please note: when performing a migration to 6.2 and you have an existing db,
then you have to use the *new* pg_dumpall script that comes with this new
postgresql release. The INSTALL file points this out explicitely !!!
Changes:
- startup script resides in FILESDIR
- renamed it to be in sync with INSTALL file from sources
- always install this startup script over an existing, because
of the nature of the rc.d directory I can't install it
to pgsql.sh-dist, if a pgsql.sh is already presend ...
- portlint detected trailing whitespace, usage of perl with absolute
path, usage of echo instead of ECHO and plenty things of this kind
- post installation notes updated, mentioned the mailing list
- copies the html pages as well to the share/doc directory (new manual dir)
- had to update PLIST
- shortened DESCR file, to match the 24 lines
- added post build target, that reminds the admin how to proceed when
already having a database -> INSTALL file describes migration
- updated manpages
