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* The package is now called `postgresql' and not `pgsql'. * The default user that is suggested for the admin account is also `postgresql'. This will work with OpenBSD-current with long username support. If anything breaks please report to the maintainers. * pgwrap is no longer shipped or supported * Please note, you will HAVE TO BACKUP your old data if you are upgrading from a previous release of postgresql. Do this before removing the old pgsql package. From the announcement last weekend: Key New Features and Capabilities of Version 7.1 Include: * Write-ahead Log (WAL) increases data integrity and processing speed. To maintain database consistency in case of an operating system crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL have forced all all data modifications to disk before each transaction commit. With WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving performance. (Tech note: can eliminate use of -F in to disable disk flushes) * TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) Past releases had compiled-in row length limit typically between 8Kb & 32Kb. This restriction made storage of long text fields difficult, cumbersome and slow. TOAST enables rows of any length while maintaing the high performance PostgreSQL users have come to expect. * SQL92 Outer Joins are now supported. (Tech note: eliminates the UNION/NOT IN workaround) * 64-bit C Language Function Manager support The previous C function manager did not handle support 64-bit CPU's (e.g. Alpha, Sun, Itanium). (Tech note: This change should not impact existing custom functions developed for past versions, but performance will be improved through rewriting to use the new call interface.) * Complex Queries that are better, stronger and faster Many complex queries were unsupported in previous releases. With v7.1 combinations of views, aggregates, UNION, LIMIT, cursors, subqueries, and inherited tables are enabled. Inherited tables are now accessed by default, and subqueries in FROM are now supported.
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PostgreSQL RDBMS frontend applications, libraries and include files
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for database administration, maintenance and integration with other
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applications.
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Package includes psql - interactive SQL database query tool.
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