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Doc: minor improvements for our "Brief History" chapter.
Add a link to Joe Hellerstein's paper "Looking Back at Postgres", which is quite an interesting take on the history of Postgres. The reference to Appendix E was written when we were still keeping the entire release-note history there, which we stopped doing some years ago when the O(N^2) cost of that started to become apparent. Instead, point to the release note archives on the website. (This per suggestion from Daniel Gustafsson.) In passing, move the "ports12" biblioentry to be in alphabetical order within that section. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3345678.1720071633@sss.pgh.pa.us
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<title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4179">Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL</ulink></title>
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<firstname>D.</firstname>
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<surname>Ports</surname>
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<conftitle>VLDB Conference</conftitle>
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<confdates>August 2012</confdates>
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<address>Istanbul, Turkey</address>
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<title><ulink url="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tr-95-51.pdf">A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels</ulink></title>
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<biblioentry id="hell18">
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<title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973">Looking Back at Postgres</ulink></title>
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<author>
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<firstname>J.</firstname>
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<surname>Hellerstein</surname>
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<title>Making Databases Work</title>
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<isbn>978-1-947487-19-2</isbn>
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<publisher>
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<publishername>Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan &amp; Claypool</publishername>
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<pubdate>2018</pubdate>
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<title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4179">Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL</ulink></title>
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<author>
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<firstname>D.</firstname>
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<surname>Ports</surname>
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<author>
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<firstname>K.</firstname>
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<surname>Grittner</surname>
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<confgroup>
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<conftitle>VLDB Conference</conftitle>
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<confdates>August 2012</confdates>
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<address>Istanbul, Turkey</address>
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<title><ulink url="https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M87-13.pdf">The <productname>POSTGRES</productname>

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the most advanced open-source database available anywhere.
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Another take on the history presented here can be found in Dr. Joe
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Hellerstein's paper <quote>Looking Back at Postgres</quote>
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<title>The Berkeley <productname>POSTGRES</productname> Project</title>
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Details about what has happened in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> since
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Details about what has happened in
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each <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> release since then
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can be found at
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<ulink url="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/</ulink>.
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