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postgresql-client-18.6

PostgreSQL RDBMS (client)

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Description

PostgreSQL RDBMS client applications, libraries and include files for database administration, maintenance and integration with other applications. The OpenBSD PostgreSQL port build produces several packages: * postgresql-client-${VERSION} - client package Client-side applications, headers and libraries. * postgresql-server-${VERSION} - server package Contains additional files needed for performing backend server functions - such as providing the database server itself. * postgresql-docs-${VERSION} - documentation Additional documentation: FAQs, READMEs; PostgreSQL manuals in HTML format: Administrator's Guide, Programmer's Manual, PostgreSQL Tutorial and User's Guide and Integrated Documentation package contains all the above documentation. * postgresql-contrib-${VERSION} - contributions Additional utilities and useful libraries. * postgresql-plpython-${VERSION} - PL/Python procedural language. * postgresql-pg_upgrade-${VERSION} - Used to upgrade database clusters directly from the previous version without a dump and restore.

Package information

Ports path
databases/postgresql
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Jeremy Evans <jeremy@openbsd.org>
Categories
databases, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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