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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:37:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/62167: [MAINTAINER] databases/postgresql: add upgrade note
Message-ID:  <200401311637.i0VGbpqR096303@palle.girgensohn.se>
Resent-Message-ID: <200401311640.i0VGeKsX022005@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         62167
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [MAINTAINER] databases/postgresql: add upgrade note
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 31 08:40:20 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Palle Girgensohn
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Ping Pong AB
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD palle.girgensohn.se 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #6: Tue Nov  4 22:56:29 CET
>Description:
The function "elog" has been removed from pg-7.4, so contrib functions
must be updated when updating the postgres binary.

This patch adds a note about that.

Also, it's been a while since the postgresql layout shift,
no reason to inform about it anymore.

Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.50
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- postgresql-7.4.1.patch begins here ---
Index: files/post-install-notes
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/databases/postgresql7/files/post-install-notes,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -u -r1.18 post-install-notes
--- files/post-install-notes	25 Dec 2003 10:55:39 -0000	1.18
+++ files/post-install-notes	31 Jan 2004 16:13:26 -0000
@@ -24,11 +24,17 @@
 p5-postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby
   For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages.
 
+postgresql-contrib
+  Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and
+  datatypes. There you find autovacuum, pgcrypto and many other cool
+  things.
+
 etc etc...
 
-Note that many files have moved around compared to previous versions
-of PostgreSQL. For example, plpgsql.so and all other language modules
-are now in /usr/local/lib/postgresql.
+For procedural languages and postgresql functions, please note that
+you might have to update them when updating the server. For example,
+the "elog" method disappeared in postgresql-7.4, so postgresql-contrib
+must be updated along with the server.
 
 If you have many tables and many clients running, consider raising
 kern.maxfiles using sysctl(8), or reconfigure your kernel
--- postgresql-7.4.1.patch ends here ---

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