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|Full description=PostgreSQL is a powerful database system with a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It supports the SQL standard and is fully ACID compliant. It offers many advanced features, including complex queries, foreign keys, triggers, views, transactional integrity and multiversion concurrency control. PostgreSQL is free software and runs on all major operating systems. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC.
 
|Full description=PostgreSQL is a powerful database system with a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It supports the SQL standard and is fully ACID compliant. It offers many advanced features, including complex queries, foreign keys, triggers, views, transactional integrity and multiversion concurrency control. PostgreSQL is free software and runs on all major operating systems. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC.
 
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|Homepage URL=http://www.postgresql.org
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|Computer languages=SQL
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|Documentation note=Printed user reference manual available from http://www.network-theory.co.uk/postgresql/
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|Related projects=Ah3,GNU_SQL,MySQL,SQLite,Sweater,Octave-db
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|Keywords=database,SQL,RDBMS,postgres,db,object-relational database
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|Is GNU=n
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|Last review by=Zak McGregor
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|Last review date=2008-07-09
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
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|Version date=2005-05-10
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|Version date=2007-09-21
 
|Version status=stable
 
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|Version download=http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.0.3/
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|Version download=http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.2.5/
|License verified date=2001-06-08
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|License verified date=2007-11-28
|Version comment=8.0.3 stable released 2005-05-10
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|Resource URL=http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/
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|Resource audience=Help
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|Resource URL=mailto:pgsql-announce@postgresql.org
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|Resource URL=mailto:pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
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|License=BSD
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Revision as of 10:47, 12 April 2011


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PostgreSQL

https://www.postgresql.org/
A robust SQL Object-Relational Database

PostgreSQL is a powerful database system with a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

It supports the SQL standard and is fully ACID compliant. It offers many advanced features, including complex queries, foreign keys, triggers, views, transactional integrity and multiversion concurrency control.

It features native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .NET, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC.





Licensing

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PostgreSQL is released under the PostgreSQL License.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/

PostgreSQL is released under the PostgreSQL License, a liberal Open Source license, similar to the BSD or MIT licenses.

PostgreSQL Database Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then as Postgres95)

Portions Copyright © 1996-2023, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Portions Copyright © 1994, The Regents of the University of California

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS NO OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

Will PostgreSQL ever be released under a different license? The PostgreSQL Global Development Group remains committed to making PostgreSQL available as free and open source software in perpetuity. There are no plans to change the PostgreSQL License or release PostgreSQL under a different license.

If you would like to read more about this topic, then please take a look at the mailing list archives at one of the many discussions on this subject.




Leaders and contributors

Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Ruby (Ref) (R)https://rubygems.org/gems/pgsql
DeveloperE-mailmailto:pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Debian (Ref) (R)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/postgresql
UserDownloadhttp://www.postgresql.org/download/
HelpE-mailmailto:pgsql-announce@postgresql.org
Python (Ref) (R)https://pypi.org/project/pgsql
Ruby (Ref) (R)https://rubygems.org/gems/postgresql
DeveloperVCS Repository Webviewhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git
SupportE-mailmailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Bug TrackingE-mailmailto:pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
WikiHomepagehttps://wiki.postgresql.org
IRC channels on irc.freenode.netHomepagehttp://www.postgresql.org/community/irc/
DeveloperMailing List Info/Archivehttp://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/#developer


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to buildmake
Weak prerequisiteTcl
Weak prerequisitePython
Required to buildzlib
Required to buildReadline
Weak prerequisitePerl
Weak prerequisiteBison
Weak prerequisiteFlex
Weak prerequisiteGettext
Required to buildGCC




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