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| | The new release includes performance improvements and advanced SQL
features which will support bigger data warehouses, higher-volume
transaction processing, and more complex distributed enterprise
software.
Major new features in this release include:
      Roles:
           PostgreSQL now supports database roles, which simplify the
           management of large numbers of users with complex
           overlapping database rights.
      IN/OUT Parameters:
           PostgreSQL functions now support IN, OUT and INOUT
           parameters, which substantially improves support of complex
           business logic for J2EE and .NET applications.
      Two-Phase Commit (2PC):
           Long in demand for WAN applications and heterogeneous data
           centers using PostgreSQL, this feature allows
           ACID-compliant transactions across widely separated
           servers.
Some Performance Enhancements found in this release include:
      Improved Multiprocessor (SMP) Performance:
           The buffer manager for 8.1 has been enhanced to scale almost
           linearly with the number of processors, leading to significant
           performance gains on 8-way, 16-way, dual-core, and multi-core
           CPU servers.
      Bitmap Scan:
           Indexes will be dynamically converted to bitmaps in memory when
           appropriate, giving up to twenty times faster index performance
           on complex queries against very large tables.
      Table Partitioning:
           The query planner is now able to avoid scanning whole sections
           of a large table using a technique known as Constraint
           Exclusion.
       Shared Row Locking:
           PostgreSQL's "better than row-level locking" now supports even
           higher levels of concurrency through the addition of shared
           row locks for foreign keys.
For a more complete listing of changes in this release, please see the
Release Notes visible at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html#RELEASE-8-1
Notes:
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| | are savepoints (within transactions), point-in-time recovery and
tablespaces. Check out the release notes and the shiny new
PostgreSQL.org website at:
http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/8.0/static/release.html#RELEASE-8-0
The port uses the new postgresql ports' layout and is split into a
server and a client part. The following knobs can be used by ports
depending on PostgreSQL:
# USE_PGSQL     - Add PostgreSQL client dependency.
#                 If no version is given (by the maintainer via the port or
#                 by the user via defined variable), try to find the
#                 currently installed version.  Fall back to default if
#                 necessary (PostgreSQL-7.4 = 74).
# DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER
#               - PostgreSQL default version. Can be overridden within a port.
#                 Default: 74.
# WANT_PGSQL_VER
#               - Maintainer can set an arbitrary version of PostgreSQL by
#                 using it.
# BROKEN_WITH_PGSQL
#               - This variable can be defined if the ports doesn't support
#                 one or more versions of PostgreSQL.
PR:		75344
Approved by:	portmgr@ (kris), ade & sean (mentors)
Notes:
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