The most advanced open-source database available anywhere - client only Was Maintained by:girgen@pingpong.net Port Added: 13 Oct 2003 10:01:04 License: not specified in port
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almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and
user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source
database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available.
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Professor Michael Stonebraker at the University of California, Berkeley. In
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language to SQL and created a new database system which came to known as
Postgres95. Many others contributed to the porting, testing, debugging and
enhancement of the Postgres95 code. As the code improved, and 1995 faded into
memory, PostgreSQL was born.
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Remove databases/postgresql-client because there can't be a -server, and having
it installed prevents databases/postgresql7 from being installed, leading to
some dependencies problems
Remove the PORTNAME from postgreql-client. PORTNAME is set by
MASTERDIR/Makefile[1]. Improve the CONFLICTS messages[2]. Fix the DEPENDS
so that MIT krb5 depends on security/krb5, not heimdal[3]. Add a file that
was missing in the upgrade that has PostgreSQL log to syslog by default[4].
PR: [4] Originally submitted in ports/59402
Submitted by: [1,2,4] maintainer
[3] keoki seu <keoki@camelot.physics.wm.edu>
New slaveport: databases/postgresql-client.
It installs databases/postgresql7 with the WITHOUT_SERVER
option, making it an ideal replacement for all the ports
'which require libpq.so.3 but are currently building the
full database server for it'.