The PostgreSQL port has a collection of "side orders": postgresql-docs For all of the html documentation p5-Pg A perl5 API for client access to PostgreSQL databases. postgresql-tcltk If you want tcl/tk client support. postgresql-jdbc For Java JDBC support. postgresql-odbc For client access from unix applications using ODBC as access method. Not needed to access unix PostgreSQL servers from Win32 using ODBC. See below. ruby-postgres, py-PyGreSQL For client access to PostgreSQL databases using the ruby & python languages. postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages. postgresql-contrib Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and datatypes. There you find pg_standby, pgcrypto and many other cool things. etc...