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Postgres quick Installation Guide.
- thomas 1998-10-26

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Revision 1.4  1999/05/26 17:30:29  thomas
Add chapters on CVS access, MVCC, SQL theory to the docs.
Add an appendix with more details on date/time attributes and handling.
Update most references to Postgres version numbers to 6.5,
 *except* for the porting list which will require a report
 from a successful installation to be updated.

Revision 1.3  1998/11/02 15:53:02  thomas
Move configuration info to after installation procedure.
Include only the current release  in the release notes section.

Revision 1.2  1998/10/30 19:37:00  thomas
Minor editing and markup changes as a result of preparing the Postscript
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Bigger updates to the installation instructions (install and config).

Revision 1.1  1998/10/27 06:11:08  thomas
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<ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName> is &copy; 1998-9
by the Postgres Global Development Group.
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<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>, 
 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.
 <ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName> is a public-domain, open source descendant
 of this original Berkeley code.
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<title>Introduction</title>

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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 
<citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.

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