From 46925a71ae054fa66f9c9846458587d74060c9ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: adam Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:41:36 +0000 Subject: PostgreSQL 8.3 With significant new functionality and performance enhancements, this release represents a major leap forward for PostgreSQL. This was made possible by a growing community that has dramatically accelerated the pace of development. This release adds the following major features: * Full text search is integrated into the core database system * Support for the SQL/XML standard, including new operators and an XML data type * Enumerated data types (ENUM) * Arrays of composite types * Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) data type * Add control over whether NULLs sort first or last * Updatable cursors * Server configuration parameters can now be set on a per-function basis * User-defined types can now have type modifiers * Automatically re-plan cached queries when table definitions change or statistics are updated * Numerous improvements in logging and statistics collection * Support Security Service Provider Interface (SSPI) for authentication on Windows * Support multiple concurrent autovacuum processes, and other autovacuum improvements * Allow the whole PostgreSQL distribution to be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ --- databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR (limited to 'databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR') diff --git a/databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR b/databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a485664e6f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/postgresql83-client/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS (ORDBMS), +derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management system. While +PostgreSQL retains the powerful object-relational data model, rich data types +and easy extensibility of Postgres, it replaces the PostQuel query language +with an extended subset of SQL. + +PostgreSQL is free and the complete source is available. + +This package contains the database client programs. -- cgit v1.2.3