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           SPELL=postgresql
         VERSION=9.3.5
          SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.tar.bz2
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:a49bc8ea7635be5082044f5ebd6b81de7198583aedb072dffec8425521af90f2cb8e9f6e7b55b361ff24cbebc0670afefe365e8f5b80b8248ddf492b8092a746
SOURCE_DIRECTORY="$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION"
   SOURCE_URL[0]=ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v$VERSION/$SOURCE
   SOURCE_URL[1]=ftp://ftp9.de.postgresql.org/unix/databases/postgresql/source/v${VERSION}/${SOURCE}
        WEB_SITE=http://www.postgresql.org/
     GATHER_DOCS=off
  SECURITY_PATCH=14
         ENTERED=20011113
      LICENSE[0]=BSD
        KEYWORDS="database"
           SHORT="sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS"
cat << EOF
PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL
constructs, including subselects, transactions and user defined types and
functions. A point list for some technical features that PostgreSQL offers:
* Fully ACID compliant
* ANSI SQL compliant
* Referential Integrity
* Replication (non-commercial and commercial solutions)
* Native interfaces for ODBC, JDBC, C, C++, PHP, Perl, TCL, ECPG, Python, Ruby
* Rules, Views, Triggers, Outer Joins, Sub-selects, Sequences, Stored Procedures
* Support for UNION, UNION ALL and EXCEPT queries
* Unicode
* Inheritance
* An open API
* Native SSL support, Native Kerberos authentication
* Better than row-level locking, Functional and Partial indexes
* Loadable extensions offering SHA1, MD5, XML, and other functionality
* Tools for generating portable SQL to share with other SQL-compliant systems
* Extensible data type system
* Cross-database compatibility functions
EOF