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PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide.
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  <corpauthor>The PostgreSQL Global Development Group</corpauthor>
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  &intro;
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  <title>Organization</title>

  <para>
   The first part of this manual is the description of the client-side
   programming interfaces and support libraries for various languages.
   The second part explains the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
   approach to extensibility and describe how users can extend
   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> by adding user-defined types,
   operators, aggregates, and both query language and programming
   language functions.  After a discussion of the
   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> rule system, we discuss the
   trigger and SPI interfaces.  The third part documents the
   procedural languages available in the
   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> distribution.
  </para>

  <para>
   Proficiency with Unix and C programming is assumed.
  </para>
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  <title>Client Interfaces</title>
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  &libpgtcl;
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  &ecpg;
  &odbc;
  &jdbc;
  &pygresql;
  &lisp;
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  <title>Server Programming</title>
  &arch-pg;
  &extend;
  &xfunc;
  &xtypes;
  &xoper;
  &xaggr;
  &rules;
  &xindex;
  &indexcost;
  &gist;

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  <title>Procedural Languages</title>

  &xplang;
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  &pltcl;
  &plperl;
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