diff --git a/srcpkgs/postgresql/patches/plperl_5.14.patch b/srcpkgs/postgresql/patches/plperl_5.14.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f5b524b0083
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/postgresql/patches/plperl_5.14.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+*** src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+--- src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+***************
+*** 700,706 **** plperl_trusted_init(void)
+  		if (!isGV_with_GP(sv) || !GvCV(sv))
+  			continue;
+  		SvREFCNT_dec(GvCV(sv)); /* free the CV */
+! 		GvCV(sv) = NULL;		/* prevent call via GV */
+  	}
+  	hv_clear(stash);
+  	/* invalidate assorted caches */
+--- 700,706 ----
+  		if (!isGV_with_GP(sv) || !GvCV(sv))
+  			continue;
+  		SvREFCNT_dec(GvCV(sv)); /* free the CV */
+! 		GvCV_set(sv, NULL);		/* prevent call via GV */
+  	}
+  	hv_clear(stash);
+  	/* invalidate assorted caches */
+*** src/pl/plperl/plperl.h
+--- src/pl/plperl/plperl.h
+***************
+*** 43,48 ****
+--- 43,53 ----
+  #undef bool
+  #endif
+  
++ /* supply GvCV_set if it's missing - ppport.h doesn't supply it, unfortunately */
++ #ifndef GvCV_set
++ #define GvCV_set(gv, cv)		(GvCV(gv) = cv)
++ #endif
++ 
+  /* routines from spi_internal.c */
+  int			spi_DEBUG(void);
+  int			spi_LOG(void);
diff --git a/srcpkgs/postgresql/template b/srcpkgs/postgresql/template
index f1841bed22b..27302cc3644 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/postgresql/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/postgresql/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'postgresql'
 pkgname=postgresql
-version=8.4.6
+version=8.4.8
 distfiles="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc --with-openssl --with-python
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ configure_args="--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc --with-openssl --with-python
 --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo --enable-nls --with-gnu-ld"
 short_desc="Sophisticated open-source Object-Relational DBMS"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=8110c576e9055286d7b04b8930f7a378e483f0530b41dd3098f6e35528ed7d3c
+homepage="http://www.postgresql.org"
+license="BSD"
+checksum=3e90ef2a86a9f4831e21ff4a574fbfb8e1b8c097af637c93ec43c64c684a0938
 long_desc="
  PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.
  It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture