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Tom Lane e2609323eb Make PL/Tcl require Tcl 8.4 or later. As of commit `2878220682`, PL/Tcl will not compile against pre-8.0 Tcl, whereas it used to work (more or less anyway) with quite prehistoric versions. As long as we're moving these goalposts, let's reinstall them at someplace that has some thought behind it. This commit sets the minimum allowed Tcl version at 8.4, and rips out some bits of compatibility cruft that are in consequence no longer needed. Reasons for requiring 8.4 include: * 8.4 was released in 2002; there seems little reason to believe that anyone would want to use older versions with Postgres 9.6+. * We have no buildfarm members testing anything older than 8.4, and thus no way to know if it's broken. * We need at least 8.1 to allow enforcement of database encoding security (8.1 standardized Tcl on using UTF8 internally, before that it was pretty unpredictable). * Some versions between 8.1 and 8.4 allowed the backend to become multithreaded, which is disastrous. We need at least 8.4 to be able to disable the Tcl notifier subsystem to prevent that. A small side benefit is that we can make the code more readable by doing s/CONST84/const/g.		2016-03-02 12:24:30 -05:00
config	Install our "missing" script where PGXS builds can find it.	2015-12-11 16:15:05 -05:00
contrib	Change the format of the VM fork to add a second bit per page.	2016-03-01 21:49:41 -05:00
doc	Change the format of the VM fork to add a second bit per page.	2016-03-01 21:49:41 -05:00
src	Make PL/Tcl require Tcl 8.4 or later.	2016-03-02 12:24:30 -05:00
.dir-locals.el	emacs: Set indent-tabs-mode in perl-mode	2015-04-12 23:53:23 -04:00
.gitattributes	Add functions for dealing with PGP armor header lines to pgcrypto.	2014-10-01 16:03:39 +03:00
.gitignore	Add .gitignore entries for AIX-specific intermediate build artifacts.	2015-07-08 20:44:22 -04:00
aclocal.m4	Replace our hacked version of ax_pthread.m4 with latest upstream version.	2015-07-08 20:36:06 +03:00
configure	Add support for systemd service notifications	2016-02-02 21:04:29 -05:00
configure.in	Add support for systemd service notifications	2016-02-02 21:04:29 -05:00
COPYRIGHT	Update copyright for 2016	2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in	Fix distclean/maintainer-clean targets to remove top-level tmp_install dir.	2015-05-13 18:48:05 -04:00
HISTORY	Improve text of stub HISTORY file.	2014-02-12 18:16:17 -05:00
Makefile	Allow make check in PL directories	2011-02-15 06:52:12 +02:00
README	Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore.	2014-02-10 20:48:04 -05:00
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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, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

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.  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/.