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/
Update to latest versions of PostgreSQL
2018-02-08 Security Update Release
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
versions of our database system, including 10.2, 9.6.7, 9.5.11, 9.4.16, 9.3.21.
This release fixes two security issues. This release also fixes issues with
VACUUM, GIN indexes, and hash indexes that could lead to data corruption, as
well as fixes for using parallel queries and logical replication.
All users using the affected versions of PostgreSQL should update as soon as
possible. Please see the notes on "Updating" below for any post-update steps
that may be required.
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.5, 9.5.9,
9.4.14, 9.3.19, and 9.2.23.
This release includes fixes that prevent a crash in pg_restore when
using parallel mode. It also patches over a few other bugs reported
since the last releases in August.
Additionally, in 9.4.14 only, there is a fix to an issue with walsenders
preventing primary-server shutdown unless immediate shutdown mode is used.
Users should plan to update at the next convenient downtime.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
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Update PostgreSQL port to latest version.
Two security issues have been fixed in this release which affect users
of specific PostgreSQL features:
CVE-2015-5289: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary
user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of
service.
CVE-2015-5288: The crypt( function included with the optional pgCrypto
extension could be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory.
No working exploit for this issue has been developed.
This update will also disable SSL renegotiation by default;
previously, it was enabled by default. SSL renegotiation will be
removed entirely in PostgreSQL versions 9.5 and later.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
Security: CVE-2015-5288 CVE-2015-5289
Update PostgreSQL-9.x to latests versions.
This update fixes multiple security issues reported in PostgreSQL over the past
few months. All of these issues require prior authentication, and some require
additional conditions, and as such are not considered generally urgent.
However, users should examine the list of security holes patched below in case
they are particularly vulnerable.
Security: CVE-2015-0241,CVE-2015-0242,CVE-2015-0243,
CVE-2015-0244,CVE-2014-8161
The FreeBSD x11@ and graphics team proudly presents
a zeising, kwm production, with help from dumbbell, bdrewery:
NEW XORG ON FREEBSD 9-STABLE AND 10-STABLE
This update switches over to use the new xorg stack by default on FreeBSD 9
and 10 stable, on osversions where vt(9) is available.
It is still possible to use the old stack by specifying WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in
/etc/make.conf .
FreeBSD 8-STABLE and released versions of FreeBSD still use
the old version.
A package repository with binary packages for new xorg will
be available soon.
This patch also contains updates of libxcb and related ports, pixman, as well
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
version of the database system, including versions 9.3.4, 9.2.8, 9.1.13,
9.0.17, and 8.4.21. This minor release fixes a data corruption issue with
replication and crash recovery in version 9.3, as well as several other minor
issues in all versions. All users of version 9.3 are urged to update their
installations at the next possible downtime. Users of older versions should
update at their convenience.
The data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 affects binary replication
standbys, servers being recovered from point-in-time-recovery backup, and
standalone servers which recover from a system crash. The bug causes
unrecoverable index corruption during recovery due to incorrect replay of row
locking operations. This can then cause query results to be inconsistent
depending on whether or not an index is used, and eventually lead to primary
key violations and similar issues. For this reason, users are encouraged to
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- Remove DISTV: only used in PKGNAMESUFFIX and complained by portlint
- Convert to new LIB_DEPENDS format for postgresql*-contrib
Submitted by: sunpoet (myself)
Reviewed by: crees (pgsql)
Approved by: jgh (pgsql)
Convert USE_BISON to USES= bison
It brings bison as a build dependency in case it is set the following way:
USES= bison or USES= bison:build
it brings bison as a run dependency in case it is set the following way:
USES= bison:run
it brings bison both as a run and build dependency in case it the set the
following way:
USES= bison:both
While here trim some headers
Convert some USE_GNOME= gnomehack to USES= pathfix
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the beta release of
PostgreSQL 9.2, which will include major increases in performance and
both vertical and horizontal scalability. The PostgreSQL Project asks
all users to download and begin testing 9.2 Beta as soon as possible.
Major performance and scalability advances in this version include:
* Index-only scans, allowing users to avoid inefficient scans of base
tables
* Enhanced read-only workload scaling to 64 cores and over 300,000
queries per second
* Improvements to data write speeds, including group commit
* Reductions in CPU power consumption
* Cascading replication, supporting geographically distributed standby
databases
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