Major version update from 17.5 to 18.3.
PostgreSQL 18 (released September 2025) brings:
* Asynchronous I/O (AIO) for shared buffers, sequential scans,
bitmap heap scans and pg_prewarm.
* Skip scans for B-tree indexes.
* Performance improvements for partition pruning.
* Logical replication: improved replication of generated columns,
protocol version 5.
* Native UUIDv7 support.
* Larger I/O for sequential and parallel scans.
* Concurrent reindex of partitioned tables.
* pg_dump: --filter for selective dumps.
* Numerous SQL/JSON improvements.
* New built-in role pg_signal_autovacuum_worker.
18.3 is the third maintenance release with bug fixes since 18.0.
Drop the now obsolete pg_config_ext.h copy in Build/InstallDev: this
header has been removed upstream in PostgreSQL 18.
Link: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.0/
Link: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.3/
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
This reverts commit 6a46887e60
from PR https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/24327
Postgresql version upgrade fails in buildbot for all targets
with error like:
[236/1612] Generating src/fe_utils/psqlscan with a custom command
FAILED: src/fe_utils/psqlscan.c
/builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/staging_dir/host/bin/python3 ../src/tools/pgflex --builddir . --srcdir .. --privatedir src/fe_utils/psqlscan.c.p --flex /builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/staging_dir/host/bin/flex --perl /builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/staging_dir/host/bin/perl -i ../src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l -o src/fe_utils/psqlscan.c --no-backup --fix-warnings -- -Cfe -p -p
flex: fatal internal error, exec of /builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/host/bin/m4 failed
[237/1612] Compiling C object src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so.5.16.p/pqexpbuffer.c.o
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[3]: *** [Makefile:264: /builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/postgresql-16.3/.built] Error 1
Several dozen packages depend upon postgresql, so the fallout is
rather large. Let's revert the upgrade until a fix is found.
Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
Switch to new major version 16.
Use meson to build for target, however, old autotools-style configure is
needed to clean the source directory before being able to run meson, and
host build of the timezone compiler ('zic') also still requires using the
old build system.
See also https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/release-16.html
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Currently the pc file has includedir hard coded to "/usr/include" and
libdir to "/usr/lib". This commit changes this so they can be controlled
via the "prefix" variable.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
* make sure contrib stuff gets built and installed
* refresh patches and improve Makefile while at it
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
* convert package build to use host-build for ecpg, pg_config and zic
* introduce /lib/functions/postgresql.sh to be used by packages
requiring a postgres database to exist as well as postgres' init
* no longer require shadow-su, patch pg_ctl to setuid() ifself instead
* auto-create database directory if there is enough free space
* auto-create databases configured in UCI
* remove some dead uci config options
* grab maintainership
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Daniel Golle