# PostgreSQL Installation Guide

Covering v6.5 for general release
The PostgreSQL Development Team
Thomas
Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
(last updated 1999-06-01)

PostgreSQL is Copyright © 1996-9 by the Postgres Global Development Group.

## Summary

Postgres, developed originally in the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department, pioneered many of the object-relational concepts now becoming available in some commercial databases. It provides SQL92/SQL3 language support, transaction integrity, and type extensibility. PostgreSQL is an open-source descendant of this original Berkeley code.

## Introduction

This installation procedure makes some assumptions about the desired configuration and runtime environment for your system. This may be adequate for many installations, and is almost certainly adequate for a first installation. But you may want to do an initial installation up to the point of unpacking the source tree and installing documentation, and then print or browse the Administrator's Guide.

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