# PostgreSQL

Covering v6.3 for general release
The PostgreSQL Development Team
Thomas
Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
(last updated 1998-02-23)

PostgreSQL is copyright (C) 1998 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 a public-domain, open source descendant of this original Berkeley code.

## Tutorial

Introduction for new users.

&intro; &arch; &start; &query; &advanced;

## User's Guide

Information for users.

&environ; &manage; &datatype; &array; &inherit; &query-ug; &storage; &psql; &pgaccess;

## Administrator's Guide

Installation and maintenance information.

&ports; &install; &start-ag; &recovery; &regress; &release;

## Programmer's Guide

Information for extending Postgres.

&intro-pg; &arch-pg; &extend; &xfunc; &xtypes; &xoper; &xaggr; &rules; &xindex; &gist; &dfunc; &trigger; &spi; &libpq;

## Interfaces

User and programmer interfaces.

&func-ref; &lobj; &ecpg; &libpq; &libpgtcl; &odbc; &jdbc;

## Reference

Command syntax.

&commands;

## Developer's Guide

The Developer's Guide includes discussion of design decisions and suggestions for future development.

&arch-dev; &geqo; &protocol; &compiler;

## Appendices

Additional related information.

&docguide; &contacts; &biblio;