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postgresql - PostgreSQL client programs

Description:

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system
(DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including
transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions). The
postgresql package includes the client programs and libraries that
you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server.  These PostgreSQL
client programs are programs that directly manipulate the internal
structure of PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server. These client
programs can be located on the same machine with the PostgreSQL
server, or may be on a remote machine which accesses a PostgreSQL
server over a network connection. This package contains the docs
in HTML for the whole package, as well as command-line utilities for
managing PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server.

If you want to manipulate a PostgreSQL database on a local or remote PostgreSQL
server, you need this package. You also need to install this package
if you're installing the postgresql-server package.

Packages

- Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.18, for various fixes described at
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-14.html
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-15.html
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-16.html
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-17.html
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-18.html
  including fixes for CVE-2013-0255, CVE-2013-1900 (#1017837)