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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/intro-pg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/intro-pg.sgml index 78cf9823902..cd9b98073f9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/intro-pg.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/intro-pg.sgml @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ This document is the programmer's manual for the <Ulink url="http://postgresql.org/"><ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName></Ulink> database management system, originally developed at the University - of California at Berkeley. <ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName> is based on + of California at Berkeley. + +<ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName> is based on <Ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/postgres.html"> <ProductName>Postgres release 4.2</ProductName></Ulink>. The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> project, @@ -17,14 +19,17 @@ The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> project, <Para> The first part of this manual - explains the - <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> approach to extensibility and describe how - users can extend <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> by adding user-defined types, - operators, aggregates, and both query language and programming language functions. + explains the <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> +approach to extensibility and describe how + users can extend <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> +by adding user-defined types, + operators, aggregates, and both query language and programming +language functions. After an extremely brief overview of the <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> rule system, we discuss the trigger and SPI interfaces. - The manual concludes with a detailed description of the programming interfaces and + The manual concludes with a detailed description of +the programming interfaces and support libraries for various languages. </Para> @@ -32,43 +37,8 @@ The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> project, We assume proficiency with UNIX and C programming. </Para> -<Sect1> -<Title>Copyrights and Trademarks</Title> - -<Para> -<ProductName>PostgreSQL</ProductName> is copyright (C) 1996-8 by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, -and is distributed under the terms of the Berkeley license. - -<Para> -<ProductName>Postgres95</ProductName> is copyright (C) 1994-5 by 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. -</Para> -<Para> -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. -</Para> -<Para> -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 -maintainance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications. -</Para> +¬ation; -<Para> -<Acronym>UNIX</Acronym> is a trademark of X/Open, Ltd. Sun4, SPARC, SunOS -and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. DEC, -DECstation, Alpha AXP and ULTRIX are trademarks of Digital -Equipment Corp. PA-RISC and HP-UX are trademarks of -Hewlett-Packard Co. OSF/1 is a trademark of the Open -Software Foundation. -</Para> +&legal; </Chapter> |