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<chapter id="intro-pg">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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This document is the programmer's manual for the
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<ulink url="http://postgresql.org/"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname></ulink>
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database management system, originally developed at the University
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of California at Berkeley.
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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is based on
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<ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/postgres.html">
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<productname>Postgres release 4.2</productname></ulink>.
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The <productname>Postgres</productname> project,
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led by Professor Michael Stonebraker, has been sponsored by the
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (<acronym>DARPA</acronym>), the
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Army Research Office (<acronym>ARO</acronym>), the National Science
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Foundation (<acronym>NSF</acronym>), and ESL, Inc.
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</para>
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<para>
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The first part of this manual
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explains the <productname>Postgres</productname>
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approach to extensibility and describe how
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users can extend <productname>Postgres</productname>
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by adding user-defined types,
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operators, aggregates, and both query language and programming
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language functions.
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After a discussion of the <productname>Postgres</productname>
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rule system, we discuss
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the trigger and SPI interfaces.
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The manual concludes with a detailed description of
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the programming interfaces and
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support libraries for various languages.
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</para>
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<para>
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We assume proficiency with Unix and C programming.
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</para>
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&info;
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¬ation;
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&problems;
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&y2k;
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&legal;
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</chapter>
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