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{ type: install
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message: <<EOM
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For procedural languages and postgresql functions, please note that
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you might have to update them when updating the server.
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If you have many tables and many clients running, consider raising
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kern.maxfiles using sysctl(8), or reconfigure your kernel
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appropriately.
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The port is set up to use autovacuum for new databases, but you might
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also want to vacuum and perhaps backup your database regularly. There
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is a periodic script, %%PREFIX%%/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql, that
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you may find useful. You can use it to backup and perform vacuum on all
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databases nightly. Per default, it performs `vacuum analyze'. See the
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script for instructions. For autovacuum settings, please review
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~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf.
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If you plan to access your PostgreSQL server using ODBC, please
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consider running the SQL script %%PREFIX%%/share/postgresql/odbc.sql
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to get the functions required for ODBC compliance.
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Please note that if you use the rc script,
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%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql, to initialize the database, unicode
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(UTF-8) will be used to store character data by default. Set
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postgresql_initdb_flags or use login.conf settings described below to
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alter this behaviour. See the start rc script for more info.
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To set limits, environment stuff like locale and collation and other
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things, you can set up a class in /etc/login.conf before initializing
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the database. Add something similar to this to /etc/login.conf:
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---
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postgres:\
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:lang=en_US.UTF-8:\
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:setenv=LC_COLLATE=C:\
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:tc=default:
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---
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and run `cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf'.
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Then add 'postgresql_class="postgres"' to /etc/rc.conf.
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======================================================================
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To initialize the database, run
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%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
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You can then start PostgreSQL by running:
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%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql start
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For postmaster settings, see ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
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NB. FreeBSD's PostgreSQL port logs to syslog by default
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See ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf for more info
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NB. If you're not using a checksumming filesystem like ZFS, you might
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wish to enable data checksumming. It can only be enabled during
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the initdb phase, by adding the "--data-checksums" flag to
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the postgres_initdb_flags rcvar. Check the initdb(1) manpage
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for more info and make sure you understand the performance
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implications.
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======================================================================
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To run PostgreSQL at startup, add
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'postgresql_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf
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EOM
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}
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]
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