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What Is Postgresql?: Postgres

PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database management system descended from code developed at UC Berkeley. It supports SQL standards as well as modern features like complex queries, foreign keys, triggers, views, and transaction integrity. PostgreSQL can also be extended through additional data types, functions, operators, and languages and is free to use for any purpose.

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What Is Postgresql?: Postgres

PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database management system descended from code developed at UC Berkeley. It supports SQL standards as well as modern features like complex queries, foreign keys, triggers, views, and transaction integrity. PostgreSQL can also be extended through additional data types, functions, operators, and languages and is free to use for any purpose.

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What is PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES,


Version 4.2, developed at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department.
POSTGRES pioneered many concepts that only became available in some commercial database
systems much later.
PostgreSQL is an open-source descendant of this original Berkeley code. It supports a large part of the
SQL standard and offers many modern features:
complex queries
foreign keys
triggers
views
transactional integrity
multiversion concurrency control
Also, PostgreSQL can be extended by the user in many ways, for example by adding new
data types
functions
operators
aggregate functions
index methods
procedural languages
And because of the liberal license, PostgreSQL can be used, modified, and distributed by anyone free
of charge for any purpose, be it private, commercial, or academic.

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