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- PostgreSQL Database Management System
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-
- This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
- database management system.
-
- PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
- that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
- transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
- and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
-
- PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
- common listed below:
-
- C++ - http://pqxx.org/development/libpqxx/
- JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
- ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
- Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
- PHP - http://www.php.net
- Python - http://www.initd.org/
- Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/
-
- Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
- parties.
-
- PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
- a short, incomplete list is below:
-
- PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
- PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
- PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
- PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
- PL/Java - http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pljava/
- PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
-
- See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
- PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and
- hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
- software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
- system. Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
- file HISTORY. Copyright and license information can be found in the
- file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
- distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
- instructions.
-
- The latest version of this software may be obtained at
- http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our
- web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.
-
-