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Tom Lane 3666260ffd Fix old pg_dump oversight: default values for domains really need to be dumped by decompiling the typdefaultbin expression, not just printing the typdefault text which may be out-of-date or assume the wrong schema search path. (It's the same hazard as for adbin vs adsrc in column defaults.) The catalogs.sgml spec for pg_type implies that the correct procedure is to look to typdefaultbin first and consider typdefault only if typdefaultbin is NULL. I made dumping of both domains and base types do that, even though in the current backend code typdefaultbin is always correct for domains and typdefault for base types --- might as well try to future-proof it a little. Per bug report from Alexander Galler.		2006-02-21 18:01:32 +00:00
config	Allow installation into directories containing spaces in the name.	2005-12-09 21:19:36 +00:00
contrib	Fixing and improve compound word support. This changes cannot be applied to	2006-02-20 17:51:05 +00:00
doc	Add TABLESPACE and ON COMMIT clauses to CREATE TABLE AS. ON COMMIT is	2006-02-19 00:04:28 +00:00
src	Fix old pg_dump oversight: default values for domains really need to be dumped	2006-02-21 18:01:32 +00:00
aclocal.m4	Add new auto-detection of thread flags.	2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure	Adjust probe for getaddrinfo to cope with macro-ized definitions, such	2006-02-21 06:06:50 +00:00
configure.in	Adjust probe for getaddrinfo to cope with macro-ized definitions, such	2006-02-21 06:06:50 +00:00
COPYRIGHT	Tag appropriate files for rc3	2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in	Remove the contents of the src/corba subdirectory: this has been dead code	2005-05-01 06:15:51 +00:00
Makefile	please find attached an alternate submission which addresses open item	2004-10-06 08:50:02 +00:00
README	Update README file.	2006-02-12 19:24:24 +00:00
README.CVS	Some further editorializing on README.CVS.	2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
a short but not complete list is below:

pl/c - Included in PostgreSQL core 
plPgsql - Included in PostgreSQL core - Similar to Oracle PL/sql
plPerl - Included in PostgreSQL core
plPHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
plPython - Included in PostgreSQL core
plJava - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php
plTcl - Included in PostgreSQL core

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.