PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting
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.
The original Postgres code was the effort of many graduate students,
undergraduate students, and staff programmers working under the direction of
Professor Michael Stonebraker at the University of California, Berkeley. In
1995, Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen took on the task of converting the DBMS query
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.
PostgreSQL development is presently being performed by a team of Internet
developers who are now responsible for all current and future development. The
development team coordinator is Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@PostgreSQL.ORG).
Support is available from the PostgreSQL developer/user community through the
support mailing list (questions@PostgreSQL.ORG).
PostgreSQL is free and the complete source is available.
WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/
===> The following configuration options are available for postgresql-server-8.1.23:
NLS=on (default) "Use internationalized messages"
PAM=off (default) "Build with PAM support (server only)"
MIT_KRB5=off (default) "Build with MIT's kerberos support"
HEIMDAL_KRB5=off (default) "Builds with Heimdal kerberos support"
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off (default) "Builds with compiler optimizations (-O3)"
TESTS=off (default) "Allows the use of a "check" target (server)"
DEBUG=off (default) "Builds with debugging symbols"
ICU=off (default) "Use ICU for unicode collation (server)"
HIER=off (default) "Builds with query hierarchy (server)"
INTDATE=off (default) "Builds with 64-bit date/time type (server)"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Garbage collect expired ports
2011-04-01 accessibility/linux-f8-atk: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 archivers/linux-f8-ucl: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 archivers/linux-f8-upx: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-alsa-lib: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-arts: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-esound: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-freealut: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-libaudiofile: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-libogg: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-libvorbis: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-mikmod: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-nas-libs: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-openal: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
2011-04-01 audio/linux-f8-sdl_mixer: End of Life since Jan 7, 2009
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Update all PostgreSQL ports to latest versions.
Also, try to break the previous 1:1 relation between FreeBSD system and
PostgreSQL versions installed. Use different PREFIX:es to install
different versions on the same system.
PR: ports/132402, ports/145002, ports/146657
Update all PostgreSQL ports to latest version.
Remove postgresql-contrib in favour for postgresqlNN-contrib.
This way we will get packages built, which is nice.
Security: CVE-2010-1169
Security: CVE-2010-1170
The PostgreSQL Project today released minor versions updating all active
branches of the PostgreSQL object-relational database system, including
versions 8.4.4, 8.3.11, 8.2.17, 8.1.21, 8.0.25, and 7.4.29. This release
fixes moderate-risk security issues with PL/perl and PL/tcl, as well as
a data corruption issue with standby databases. Users of any of these
three features should update their PostgreSQL installations immediately.
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Fix a few "bad example" problems in the rc.d scripts that have been
propogated by copy and paste.
1. Primarily the "empty variable" default assignment, which is mostly
${name}_flags="", but fix a few others as well.
2. Where they are not already documented, add the existence of the _flags
(or other deleted empties) option to the comments, and in some cases add
comments from scratch.
3. Replace things that look like:
prefix=%%PREFIX%%
command=${prefix}/sbin/foo
to just use %%PREFIX%%. In many cases the $prefix variable is only used
once, and in some cases it is not used at all.
4. In a few cases remove ${name}_flags from command_args
5. Remove a long-stale comment about putting the port's rc.d script in
/etc/rc.d (which is no longer necessary).
No PORTREVISION bumps because all of these changes are noops.
Update PostgreSQL to latest versions.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1055
The PostgreSQL Project today released
updates to all active branches of the
PostgreSQL object-relational database
system, including versions 8.3.6,
8.2.12, 8.1.16, 8.0.20 and 7.4.24. These
updates include two serious fixes, for
autovacuum crashes in version 8.1 and
GiST indexing data loss in 8.3, and
those two versions should be updated as
soon as possible.
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Updates of the PostgreSQL ports
Updates for all maintained versions of PostgreSQL are available today:
8.3.3, 8.2.9, 8.1.13, 8.0.17 and 7.4.21. These releases fix more than
two dozen minor issues reported and patched over the last few months.
All PostgreSQL users should plan to update at their earliest
convenience. People in affected time zones, in particular, should
upgrade as soon as possible.
Release Notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release.html
Also, fix umask error in periodic script [1].
PR: ports/124457 [1]
Submitted by: Alexandre Perrin
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Update all PostgreSQL ports to latest versions.
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
Update PostgreSQL to 7.3.19, 7.4.17, 8.0.13, 8.1.9 and 8.2.4 respectively:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released updated versions
for PostgreSQL 8.2 and all back versions to patch a privilege
escalation exploit in SECURITY DEFINER functions. All users of this
feature are urged to update to the latest minor version and follow
instructions on securing these functions as soon as possible. This
minor release also contains other fixes, so all users should plan to
deploy it.
Once you have updated, additional steps are required to secure your
database against the exploit. Please read the release notes at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release.html and the
TechDocs article at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.77 on how
to lock down your security definer functions, if you use them.
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Update PostgreSQL 8.x to 8.0.12, 8.1.8 and 8.2.3 respectively:
The recent security release (8.0.11, 8.1.7, 8.2.2) has been withdrawn.
It contained an issue which causes error with custom data types, type
constraints and expression indexes. These upgrades fix the problem.
Update PostgreSQL with, amongst other things, two security fixes:
A vulnerability allows suppressing the normal checks that a SQL
function returns the data type it's declared to do. These errors can
easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in principle might
be used to read database content that the user should not be able to
access. [CVE-2007-0555]
A vulnerability involving changing the data type of a table column
can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in principle
might be used to read database content that the user should not be
able to access. [CVE-2007-0556]
The release includes a set of other fixes as well. Please see the
release information at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release.html#RELEASE-8-1-7
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0555
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0556
There is no point in setting mode of rc.d file to be 554, set it to 555.
Otherwise there could be problems with the service not starting up in the
case when owner of the file has been changed.
Update all PostgreSQL to fix a security flaw
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released versions 8.1.4, 8.0.8,
7.4.13 and 7.3.15. This is an urgent update to close a security hole which
can permit a SQL injection attack on some applications running PostgreSQL.
Users are urged to apply the update as soon as reasonably possible. Since the
update affects client functionality, most driver projects will be updating
this week as well.
Because the security issue involved is complex, we have added a section in
Techdocs to explain it: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.52. Please
read this first before applying the updates.
Also, fix rc_subr startup problems on FreeBSD-7.x.
Security: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.50
PR: ports/95154
Remove the FreeBSD KEYWORD from all rc.d scripts where it appears.
We have not checked for this KEYWORD for a long time now, so this
is a complete noop, and thus no PORTREVISION bump. Removing it at
this point is mostly for pedantic reasons, and partly to avoid
perpetuating this anachronism by copy and paste to future scripts.
Update postgresql with latest patch release.
A critical fix repairs an error in ReadBuffer that can cause data loss
due to overwriting recently-added pages. This applies to the 8.1 and
8.0 branches on all platforms.
Note that this update might require a reindex of textual columns under
certain conditions; please see UPDATING.
Other fixes included are:
-- Character string locale comparison bug. This may require a REINDEX
on text column indexes in some locales, such as Hungarian.
-- Prevent accidental changes of locale by plperl
-- Two fixes for Japanese encodings
-- Two fixes for COPY CSV
-- Fixes for functions returning RECORD
-- Fixes to autovacuum, dblink and pgcrypto
Add 'config' to the list of directories installed by postgresql81-client,
so as to fully install everything needed for pgxs to work correctly.
Approved by: maintainer
Handle a change in rc.subr. nowadays, "faststart" is used instead of
"start" when booting, since there's no need waste time checking for
running processes when the OS is starting up.
Bumping portrevision.
PR: 90884
Submitted by: Victor Snezhko <snezhko@indorsoft.ru>
Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order. The code present
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.
Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.
Preliminary documentation can be found at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt
which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.
Light blue touch-paper. Run.
Let postgresql (libpq.so) only link with the Kerberos implementations
installed from ports. The base heimdal distribution installs libraries
that have no depenency information. While this is quite correct, it
means that each library that links with libpq.so must also know if
libpq.so is linked with libkrb.so et al. Problem is, there's no good
way to get this information (pg_config has a --libs option starting at
version 8.1) and all ports using postgresql must be changed to make it
possible to link with a libpq.so that was configured to use the
Kerberos implementation installed in /usr by default. Hence, we
require one of the ports (heimdal or krb5) if postgresql is to be
linked with Kerberos. At least for now, until we can fix this in some
better way.
Also, if MIT Kerberos (security/krb5) is installed, users should
ideally remove the base heimdal installation so linkers will not pick
it up in preference to the krb5 libs (base heimdal has higher version
numbers than krb5 port).
PR: 80869, 88098, 85178
Welcome to PostgreSQL 8.1.
The new release includes performance improvements and advanced SQL
features which will support bigger data warehouses, higher-volume
transaction processing, and more complex distributed enterprise
software.
Major new features in this release include:
Roles:
PostgreSQL now supports database roles, which simplify the
management of large numbers of users with complex
overlapping database rights.
IN/OUT Parameters:
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