Welcome PostgreSQL 8.4

After many years of development, PostgreSQL has become feature-complete in many areas.
This release shows a targeted approach to adding features (e.g., authentication,
monitoring, space reuse), and adds capabilities defined in the later SQL standards.
The major areas of enhancement are:

Windowing Functions
Common Table Expressions and Recursive Queries
Default and variadic parameters for functions
Parallel Restore
Column Permissions
Per-database locale settings
Improved hash indexes
Improved join performance for EXISTS and NOT EXISTS queries
Easier-to-use Warm Standby
Automatic sizing of the Free Space Map
Visibility Map (greatly reduces vacuum overhead for slowly-changing tables)
Version-aware psql (backslash commands work against older servers)
Support SSL certificates for user authentication
Per-function runtime statistics
Easy editing of functions in psql
New contrib modules: pg_stat_statements, auto_explain, citext, btree_gin

URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/release-8-4.html

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+--- src/backend/Makefile.orig	2009-07-07 15:58:33.000000000 +0200
++++ src/backend/Makefile	2009-07-07 15:58:57.000000000 +0200
+@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
+ # Update the commonly used headers before building the subdirectories
+ $(SUBDIRS:%=%-recursive): $(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/gram.h $(top_builddir)/src/include/utils/fmgroids.h $(top_builddir)/src/include/utils/probes.h
+ 
++symlinks: $(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/gram.h $(top_builddir)/src/include/utils/fmgroids.h $(top_builddir)/src/include/utils/probes.h
++
+ 
+ # The postgres.o target is needed by the rule in Makefile.global that
+ # creates the exports file when MAKE_EXPORTS = true.