"Many things have changed. Bugs have been fixed, new features
have been introduced. But most importantly, we're really retiring
the old 1.x-style libpqxx API now. This API (where upper-case letters
were still used in function names and such) has been supported for
more than three years in the interest of backwards compatibility,
but has been marked as obsolete all this time."
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)