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+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
+appropriately.
+
+You should vacuum and backup your database regularly. There is a
+periodic script, %%PREFIX%%/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql, that you may
+find useful. See the script for instructions.
+
+To allow many simultaneous connections to your PostgreSQL server, you
+should raise the SystemV shared memory limits in your kernel. Here are
+example values for allowing up to 180 clients (configurations in
+postgresql.conf also needed, of course):
+ options SYSVSHM
+ options SYSVSEM
+ options SYSVMSG
+ options SHMMAXPGS=65536
+ options SEMMNI=40
+ options SEMMNS=240
+ options SEMUME=40
+ options SEMMNU=120
+
+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.
+
+If you need to store any characters besides strict ASCII in your
+database, you will want to set a character set, and possibly a
+collation locale, before initializing the database. Add something
+similar to this to /etc/login.conf:
+---
+postgres:\
+ :setenv=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8,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/010.pgsql.sh initdb
+
+You can then start PostgreSQL by running:
+
+ %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start
+
+For postmaster settings, see ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
+
+NB. FreeBSD's PostgreSQL port now by default logs to syslog
+ See ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf for more info
+
+======================================================================
+
+To run PostgreSQL at startup, add
+'postgresql_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf
+