 <chapter id="intro-ag">
  <title>Introduction</title>

  <para>
   This document is the Administrator's  Manual  for  the  
   <ulink url="http://postgresql.org/"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname></ulink>
   database  management system, originally developed at the University
   of California at  Berkeley.   

   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>  is  based  on
   <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/postgres.html">
    <productname>Postgres release 4.2</productname></ulink>. 
   The <productname>Postgres</productname> project, 
   led by Professor Michael Stonebraker, was sponsored  by  the
   Defense  Advanced Research Projects Agency (<acronym>DARPA</acronym>), the
   Army Research Office (<acronym>ARO</acronym>), the National Science  
   Foundation (<acronym>NSF</acronym>), and ESL, Inc.
  </para>

   &info;
   &notation;
   &y2k;
   &legal;

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