The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced that the first beta

release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's leading
open source database, is available today.  This beta contains previews
of all of the features which will be available in version 9.4, and is
ready for testing by the worldwide PostgreSQL community.  Please
download, test, and report what you find.

Major Features
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The new major features available for testing in this beta include:

* JSONB: 9.4 includes the new JSONB "binary JSON" type. This new
  storage format for document data is higher-performance, and comes with
  indexing, functions and operators for manipulating JSON data.
* Replication: The new Data Change Streaming API allows decoding and
  transformation of the replication stream.  This lays the foundation
  for new replication tools that support high-speed and more flexible
  replication and scale-out solutions.
* Materialized Views with "Refresh Concurrently", which permit
  fast-response background summary reports for complex data.
* ALTER SYSTEM SET, which enables modifications to postgresql.conf
  from the SQL command line and from remote clients, easing
  administration tasks.

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+For procedural languages and postgresql functions, please note that
+you might have to update them when updating the server.
+
+If you have many tables and many clients running, consider raising
+kern.maxfiles using sysctl(8), or reconfigure your kernel
+appropriately.
+
+The port is set up to use autovacuum for new databases, but you might
+also want to vacuum and perhaps backup your database regularly. There
+is a periodic script, %%PREFIX%%/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql, that
+you may find useful. You can use it to backup and perfom vacuum on all
+databases nightly. Per default, it perfoms `vacuum analyze'. See the
+script for instructions. For autovacuum settings, please review
+~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf.
+
+If you plan to access your PostgreSQL server using ODBC, please
+consider running the SQL script %%PREFIX%%/share/postgresql/odbc.sql
+to get the functions required for ODBC compliance.
+
+Please note that if you use the rc script,
+%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql, to initialize the database, unicode
+(UTF-8) will be used to store character data by default.  Set
+postgresql_initdb_flags or use login.conf settings described below to
+alter this behaviour. See the start rc script for more info.
+
+To set limits, environment stuff like locale and collation and other
+things, you can set up a class in /etc/login.conf before initializing
+the database. Add something similar to this to /etc/login.conf:
+---
+postgres:\
+	:lang=en_US.UTF-8:\
+	:setenv=LC_COLLATE=C:\
+	:tc=default:
+---
+and run `cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf'.
+Then add 'postgresql_class="postgres"' to /etc/rc.conf.
+
+======================================================================
+
+To initialize the database, run
+
+  %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
+
+You can then start PostgreSQL by running:
+
+  %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql start
+
+For postmaster settings, see ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
+
+NB. FreeBSD's PostgreSQL port logs to syslog by default
+    See ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf for more info
+
+======================================================================
+
+To run PostgreSQL at startup, add
+'postgresql_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf
+