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2. What is PostgreSQL ?

PostgreSQL Version 6.1.1 is free database, complete source code is given to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92 and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as Data servers, Datacenter servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and Application servers. It is much more advanced and is a object oriented relational database (ORDBMS). PostgreSQL can store more data types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters, images, etc. - it can store complex object datatypes like objects and classes (Version 7.0 will make this capabilities more advanced). PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, Digital Unix, BSDi,NetBSD, FreeBSD, SCO unix, NEXTSTEP, Unixware and all and every flavor of Unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway.


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