The latest and greatest postgresql-8.1.4-2 is released via the cygwin setup.exe mirror network. As experimental test version, because of the layout change.
What's new / How to upgrade: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew (for 8.1) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release.html#RELEASE-8-1-4 Before you upgrade a postgresql package to a new new major or minor version (7.4 => 8.0 => 8.1), be sure to dump all your data before! With the new package you will not be able to access your old databases. => http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/app-pg-dumpall.html Minor subrelease updates (e.g. 8.0.4 to 8.0.7, or 8.1.3 to 8.1.4) can safely access the same database. Be sure to read the README.cygwin and the postgresql documentation. I recommend to install the new 8.1 right away, available as [test] version from setup, and skip 8.0 altogether. 8.1 has major feature improvements over 8.0, esp. when you use tsearch2 and PostGIS: crash-recovery on GiST indices, improved concurrency. I'll keep 8.0 a while as curr until the new layout with postgresql-8.1.4-2 is appreciated. The upcoming 8.1.5 will be curr soon. The 7.4.x server is dropped now. You can talk to 7.4.x servers via the libpq API in the new libpq3 package (pq.dll). You may build 7.4 client binaries from the libpq3 src package. The new packages are named as in debian, except that we don't support multiple server and client versions side-by-side. client libs we do. postgresql the server postgresql-client the client binaries postgresql-contrib server extensions postgresql-devel Header files for compiling SSI code to link into PostgreSQL's backend; for example, for C functions to be called from SQL. This package also contains the Makefiles necessary for building add-on modules of PostgreSQL, which would otherwise have to be built in the PostgreSQL source-code tree. (slony, postgis, ...) postgresql-doc postgresql-plperl postgresql-plpython libpq4 cygpq.dll for 8.0/8.1 libpq-devel libecpg5 run-time library for ECPG programs - Embedded PostgreSQL for C libpgtypes2 cygpgtypes.dll for 8.0/8.1 - for ECPG only libpgtypes1 shared library pgtypes.dll for PostgreSQL 7.4.x for ECPG only libecpg-compat2 cygecpg_compat.dll for 8.0.x libecpg-devel libpq3 pq.dll for 7.4.x libecpg4 ecpg.dll for 7.4.x libecpg_compat1 ecpg_compat.dll for 7.4.x I've also created various backwards compatible libpq's: libpgtypes1-7.4.5-1 libecpg4-7.4.5-1 libecpg-compat1-7.4.5-1 libpq3-7.4.5 libpq4-8.0.7 postgresql-client-8.0.7-1 (empty!) Please ask questions here at <cygwin@cygwin.com>, and only if you really have to, over at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ http://helsinki.at/ http://spacemovie.mur.at/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
