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PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide.
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  <corpauthor>The PostgreSQL Global Development Group</corpauthor>
  &legal;
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  <title>Client Interfaces</title>

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    This part of the manual is the description of the client-side
    programming interfaces and support libraries for various
    languages.
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  &lobj;
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  <title>Server Programming</title>

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   <para>
    This second part of the manual explains the
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> approach to extensibility
    and describe how users can extend
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> by adding user-defined
    types, operators, aggregates, and both query language and
    programming language functions.  After a discussion of the
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> rule system, we discuss the
    trigger and SPI interfaces.
   </para>
  </partintro>

  &arch-pg;
  &extend;
  &xfunc;
  &xtypes;
  &xoper;
  &xaggr;
  &rules;
  &xindex;
  &indexcost;
  &gist;
  &trigger;
  &spi;
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  <title>Procedural Languages</title>

  <partintro>
   <para>
    This part documents the procedural languages available in the
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> distribution as well as
    general issues concerning procedural languages.
   </para>
  </partintro>

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