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@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
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.
+you might have to update them when updating the server.
If you have many tables and many clients running, consider raising
kern.maxfiles using sysctl(8), or reconfigure your kernel
@@ -29,13 +27,19 @@ 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:
+Please note that if you use the rc script,
+%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.conf/postgresql, to initialize the database, unicode
+(UTF-8) will be used to store character data by default. Set
+postgresql_initdb_flags or use login.conf settings described below to
+alter this behaviour. See the start rc script for more info.
+
+To set limits, environment stuff like locale and collation and other
+things, you can set up a class in /etc/login.conf before initializing
+the database. Add something similar to this to /etc/login.conf:
---
postgres:\
- :setenv=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8,LC_COLLATE=C:\
+ :lang=en_US.UTF-8:\
+ :setenv=LC_COLLATE=C:\
:tc=default:
---
and run `cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf'.
@@ -45,15 +49,15 @@ Then add 'postgresql_class="postgres"' to /etc/rc.conf.
To initialize the database, run
- %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh initdb
+ %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
You can then start PostgreSQL by running:
- %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start
+ %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/postgresql start
For postmaster settings, see ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
-NB. FreeBSD's PostgreSQL port now by default logs to syslog
+NB. FreeBSD's PostgreSQL port logs to syslog by default
See ~pgsql/data/postgresql.conf for more info
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