14 lines
725 B
Plaintext
14 lines
725 B
Plaintext
|
Postgres, developed originally in the UC Berkeley Computer Science
|
||
|
Department, pioneered many of the object-relational concepts now
|
||
|
becoming available in some commercial databases. It provides
|
||
|
SQL92/SQL99 language support, transaction integrity and type
|
||
|
extensibility. PostgreSQL is an open source descendant of this
|
||
|
original Berkeley code.
|
||
|
|
||
|
PostgreSQL database is Open Source product and available without
|
||
|
cost. To use PostgreSQL support, you need PostgreSQL 6.5 or later.
|
||
|
PostgreSQL 7.0 or later to enable all PostgreSQL module feature.
|
||
|
PostgreSQL supports many character encoding including multibyte
|
||
|
character encoding. The current version and more information about
|
||
|
PostgreSQL is available at http://www.postgresql.org/.
|