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Postgres User's Reference documentation.
- thomas 1998-08-31

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Revision 1.6  1999/05/26 17:30:30  thomas
Add chapters on CVS access, MVCC, SQL theory to the docs.
Add an appendix with more details on date/time attributes and handling.
Update most references to Postgres version numbers to 6.5,
 *except* for the porting list which will require a report
 from a successful installation to be updated.

Revision 1.5  1998/10/31 09:36:37  thomas
Cleanup for v6.4 release.
Make new file current.sgml to hold release info for the current release.
 Should be moved to release.sgml before filling with next release info.

Revision 1.4  1998/10/30 19:37:12  thomas
Minor editing and markup changes as a result of preparing the Postscript
 documentation for v6.4.
Bigger updates to the installation instructions (install and config).

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    <Date>(last updated 1999-06-01)</Date>
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 developed originally in the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department,
 pioneered many of the object-relational concepts
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 transaction integrity, and type extensibility.
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