you apply this and restore afterwards!
Additionally, implicit typecasts are history and not supported anymore.
Versions prior to 8.3 had the feature (some say bug) that functions,
expecting an argument to be of a certain type, have casted a variable of
any other type to the expected type, if possible.
This has changed now. Tests surfaced rare occurrences of regressions,
which were then fixed in about ten minutes - and that code was not even
in the ports tree; no issues found there.
A few more things have changed, namely tsearch2 went from contrib to the
core and native uuid type support was added; for details read the
release announcement at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html.
tests & ok mbalmer@ (maintainer)
server package, so that the informationis always available and not only
when the docs package is installed. This was requested by many people.
SECURITY:
Version 8.1.2 fixes security and other problems that were present in 8.1.0.
See http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2006-01/msg00001.php for
details.
Changes in the package layout means that there is now a -client and
-server subpackage, and users no longer need to decide which, as
the -server depends on the -client, just like the sane cases in
mysql and openldap.
Other changes include:
* Removal of the tcl FLAVOR until someone with more tcl/tk knowledge
can make it work correctly.
* The INSTALL-server script now created a _postgresql user and group
if they don't already exist, and also a default database in
/var/postgresql if that directory also doesn't exist.
* The port is marked for NO_SHARED_ARCHS as the -server subpackage
needs shared lib support to build.
* The port will build with spinlocks disabled on hppa until someone
can check and test this problem more closely.
Built and checked on i386, sparc64, amd64, macppc (waiting for regress
test feedback).
Dependent packages will be updated after this commit, shortly.
