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6 pages in this section.
A one-page tour: cluster, database, schema, table, and why Postgres.
Postmaster, backends, background writers, WAL, shared buffers.
`pg_catalog`, `information_schema`, and discovering metadata.
Object namespaces and `search_path` pitfalls.
Major/minor releases, 5-year support, and EOL planning.
Run current minor; treat the database as a production service.