Content Summary : PostgreSQL How To Guide. PostgreSQL for Solaris: Overview PostgreSQL is a very powerful, open source, enterprise-class, feature-rich relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, accuracy and portability. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC, among others. PostgreSQL is highly scalable both in the sheer quantity of data it can manage and in the number of concurrent users it can accommodate. There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data. To meet growing demand for open source software deployments, Sun has integrated PostgreSQL for Solaris (the Solaris optimized release of PostgreSQL) in the Solaris 10 6/06 release to provide its enterprise-class customers with breakthrough new technologies based on open standards