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-Documentation concerning how to run these regression tests and interpret
-the results can be found in the PostgreSQL manual, in the chapter
-"Regression Tests".
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+Documentation concerning how to run these regression tests and interpret the results can be found in the [PostgreSQL manual](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/index.html), in the chapter ["Regression Tests"](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/regress.html).