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- Table of Contents
- What is Postgres?
- A Short History of Postgres
- About This Release
- Resources
- Copyrights and Trademarks
This document is the user manual for the PostgreSQL database management system,
originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley.
PostgreSQL is based on Postgres
release 4.2. The Postgres project, led by Professor Michael
Stonebraker, has been sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Office (ARO), the
National Science Foundation (NSF), and ESL, Inc.