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

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Revision 1.6  1999/06/04 15:51:42  thomas
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Revision 1.5  1999/06/03 04:21:48  thomas
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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.
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Update most references to Postgres version numbers to 6.5,
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Revision 1.3  1998/11/02 15:53:02  thomas
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Revision 1.2  1998/10/30 19:37:00  thomas
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Revision 1.1  1998/10/27 06:11:08  thomas
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 pioneered many of the object-relational concepts
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 transaction integrity, and type extensibility.
 <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is a public-domain, open source descendant
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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 
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