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diff --git a/databases/postgresql81-server/files/post-install-notes b/databases/postgresql81-server/files/post-install-notes deleted file mode 100644 index d52b24121539..000000000000 --- a/databases/postgresql81-server/files/post-install-notes +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -The PostgreSQL port has a collection of "side orders": - -postgresql-doc - For all of the html documentation - -p5-Pg - A perl5 API for client access to PostgreSQL databases. - -postgresql-tcltk - If you want tcl/tk client support. - -postgresql-jdbc - For Java JDBC support. - -postgresql-odbc - For client access from unix applications using ODBC as access - method. Not needed to access unix PostgreSQL servers from Win32 - using ODBC. See below. - -ruby-postgres, py-PyGreSQL - For client access to PostgreSQL databases using the ruby & python - languages. - -p5-postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby - For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages. - -postgresql-contrib - Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and - datatypes. There you find autovacuum, pgcrypto and many other cool - things. - -etc etc... - -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, /usr/local/share/postgresql/502.pgsql, that you may -find useful. - -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 (tinkering 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 /usr/local/share/postgresql/odbc.sql -to get the functions required for ODBC compliance. |