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<book>
  <title>PostGIS &last_release_version; Manual</title>

  <bookinfo>

	<corpauthor>The PostGIS Development Group</corpauthor>
	<editor>
		<firstname>Paul</firstname>
		
		<surname>Ramsey</surname>
		
		<affiliation>
		<orgname><ulink url="http://www.cleverelephant.ca">clever elephant</ulink></orgname>
		
		<address><city>Victoria</city>
		<state>British Columbia</state> <country>Canada</country>
		<email>pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</email></address>
		</affiliation>
	</editor>

  	
  	<productname>PostGIS</productname>
    <productnumber>&last_release_version;</productnumber>
  
    <abstract>
      <para>PostGIS is an extension to the PostgreSQL object-relational
      database system which allows GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
      objects to be stored in the database. PostGIS includes support for
      GiST-based R-Tree spatial indexes, and functions for analysis and
      processing of GIS objects.</para>
      
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            <inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref='images/osgeo_logo.png' /></imageobject></inlinemediaobject>     
      </para>
      <para>This is the manual for version &last_release_version;</para>
      <para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref='images/ccbysa.png' /></imageobject></inlinemediaobject> This work is licensed under a <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License</ulink>. 
      Feel free to use this material any way you like, but we ask that you attribute credit to the PostGIS Project
      and wherever possible, a link back to <ulink url="http://postgis.net">http://postgis.net</ulink>.</para> 
    </abstract>
  </bookinfo>

  &introduction;
  &installation;
  &faq;
  &using_postgis_dataman;
  &using_raster_dataman;
  &using_postgis_app;
  &performance_tips;
  &reference;
  &reference_raster;
  &faq_raster;
  &extras;
  &postgis_aggs_mm;
  &reporting;
  &release_notes;

</book>