To schedule bugs which can/should be fixed together until the next minor update...
Eselect does not create the symlinks in the postgres_symlinks array in /etc/eselect/postgresql/slots/8.3/base. Bugs #232701, #233393, #238817 and perhaps others all report this issue. (I lack the privs to add them to the depends for this bug.)
Please stabilize postgresql and libpq 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3. PostgreSQL 8.1 was released in 2005. PostgreSQL 8.2 was released in 2006. PostgreSQL 8.3 was released in 2008. All the above are still marked "unstable" on all architectures, though I've been using 8.1 and 8.2 through portage on over a dozen x86 and amd64 boxes in production roles (on Gentoo) for years with zero problems, and I'll be moving to 8.3 in production next month. Additionally, psycopg-2.0.10 (which fixes several threading bugs that affect my organization) depends on >=dev-db/libpq-8.1 (see bug #242336). As we use psycopg on ALL our Gentoo boxes to access our postgresql databases (remotely, on most of them), it currently requires customization of /etc/portage/package.keywords on all our machines, which seems really odd due to the age and stability of PostgreSQL 8.1.
dev-db/postgresql is going away
