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author | Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-09-05 11:15:29 +0000 |
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committer | Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-09-05 11:15:29 +0000 |
commit | 96150e27d7c316bc1d0b148d004b7fb036b7c5b3 (patch) | |
tree | c9c81cfb306dbdbcfdfd66b3af8892ccea273a81 /UPDATING | |
parent | Update to 1.7.2 (diff) |
Add PostgreSQL-9.6 RC1
Please read the entry from 20160905 in UPDATING:
daemon user has changed to `postgres'
ICU is default on
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=421360
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@@ -5,6 +5,27 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20160905: + AFFECTS: users of databases/postgresql96-server + AUTHOR: girgen@FreeBSD.org + + The default unix user used by the PostgreSQL daemon has changed to + `postgres' to reflect the long time upstream's convention. Any scripts + you have using the old `pgsql' unix user should be modified when upgrading to + PostgreSQL version 9.6. Older versions of PostgreSQL will continue using + `pgsql' until their end-of-life. + + For users with UTF-8 locales in the database: The ICU patch is *activated by + default* for the PostgreSQL-9.6 server. For previous versions it was optional + and default off, but this has changed. Please read the entry here below from + 20160811 and understand the consequences of changing between ICU and system + locale for database collation (short version: don't). pg_upgrade requires the + collation method to be the same (or a reindex), while pg_dump/restore does not. + + Also, the default home directory for the postgres user is now + /var/db/postgres, and the default data directory for PostgreSQL 9.6 is + /var/db/postgres/data96. + 20160829: AFFECTS: users of x11/nvidia-driver AUTHOR: cem@FreeBSD.org |