announces the availability of our most eagerly awaited release.
PostgreSQL 9.0 includes built-in, binary replication, and over a dozen
other major features which will appeal to everyone from web developers
to database hackers.
9.0 includes more major features than any release before it, including:
* Hot standby
* Streaming replication
* In-place upgrades
* 64-bit Windows builds
* Easy mass permissions management
* Anonymous blocks and named parameter calls for stored procedures
* New windowing functions and ordered aggregates
... and many more. For details on the over 200 additions and
improvements in this version, developed by over a hundred contributors,
please see the release notes.
"These kinds of feature additions continue to make a strong case for why
mission-critical technology tasks can continue to depend on the power,
flexibility and robustness of PostgreSQL,â said Afilias CTO Ram Mohan.
More information on PostgreSQL 9.0:
* Release notes
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0
* Presskit
http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit90
* Guide to 9.0:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.0
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PR: 150430, Add dtrace
This includes a bunch of security fixes: CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-4772,
CVE-2007-6601, CVE-2007-6600 and CVE-2007-4769.
Security: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905
in the post-install target. Its usage must preceed generate-plist.
This problem needs to be revisited either in a rework of bsd.port.mk or
each of these Makefiles.
Hat: portmgr
Pointy hat: edwin`
All ports depending on postgresql shall use the USE_PGSQL=yes knob
defined in Mk/bsd.ports.mk. Bumping portrevisions where needed.
PR: 75344
Approved by: portmgr@ (kris), ade & sean (mentors)
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)
