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Acronyms</h2></div></div></div><p> + This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> + documentation and in discussions about <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span>. + + </p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ANSI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute" target="_top"> + American National Standards Institute</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">API</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API" target="_top">Application Programming Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ASCII</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii" target="_top">American Standard + Code for Information Interchange</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">BKI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="bki.html" title="Chapter 74. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents">Backend Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CA</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority" target="_top">Certificate Authority</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CIDR</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing" target="_top">Classless + Inter-Domain Routing</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CPAN</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://www.cpan.org/" target="_top">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CRL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list" target="_top">Certificate + Revocation List</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CSV</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values" target="_top">Comma + Separated Values</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CTE</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="queries-with.html" title="7.8. WITH Queries (Common Table Expressions)">Common Table Expression</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">CVE</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://cve.mitre.org/" target="_top">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DBA</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator" target="_top">Database + Administrator</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DBI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://dbi.perl.org/" target="_top">Database Interface (Perl)</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DBMS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms" target="_top">Database Management + System</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DDL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language" target="_top">Data + Definition Language</a>, SQL commands such as <code class="command">CREATE + TABLE</code>, <code class="command">ALTER USER</code> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DML</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language" target="_top">Data + Manipulation Language</a>, SQL commands such as <code class="command">INSERT</code>, + <code class="command">UPDATE</code>, <code class="command">DELETE</code> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">DST</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" target="_top">Daylight + Saving Time</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ECPG</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="ecpg.html" title="Chapter 36. ECPG — Embedded SQL in C">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ESQL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL" target="_top">Embedded + SQL</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">FAQ</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ" target="_top">Frequently Asked + Questions</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">FSM</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="storage-fsm.html" title="73.3. Free Space Map">Free Space Map</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GEQO</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="geqo.html" title="Chapter 62. Genetic Query Optimizer">Genetic Query Optimizer</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="gin.html" title="Chapter 70. GIN Indexes">Generalized Inverted Index</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GiST</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="gist.html" title="Chapter 68. GiST Indexes">Generalized Search Tree</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">Git</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)" target="_top">Git</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GMT</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT" target="_top">Greenwich Mean Time</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GSSAPI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface" target="_top">Generic + Security Services Application Programming Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">GUC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="config-setting.html" title="20.1. Setting Parameters">Grand Unified Configuration</a>, + the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> subsystem that handles server configuration + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">HBA</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-pg-hba-conf.html" title="21.1. The pg_hba.conf File">Host-Based Authentication</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">HOT</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="storage-hot.html" title="73.7. Heap-Only Tuples (HOT)">Heap-Only Tuples</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">IEC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission" target="_top">International + Electrotechnical Commission</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">IEEE</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://standards.ieee.org/" target="_top">Institute of Electrical and + Electronics Engineers</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">IPC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication" target="_top">Inter-Process + Communication</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ISO</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://www.iso.org/home.html" target="_top">International Organization for + Standardization</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ISSN</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn" target="_top">International Standard + Serial Number</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">JDBC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity" target="_top">Java + Database Connectivity</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation" target="_top">Just-in-Time + compilation</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">JSON</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://www.json.org" target="_top">JavaScript Object Notation</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">LDAP</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol" target="_top">Lightweight + Directory Access Protocol</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">LSN</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + Log Sequence Number, see <a class="link" href="datatype-pg-lsn.html" title="8.20. pg_lsn Type"><code class="type">pg_lsn</code></a> + and <a class="link" href="wal-internals.html" title="30.6. WAL Internals">WAL Internals</a>. + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">MITM</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack" target="_top"> + Man-in-the-middle attack</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">MSVC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++" target="_top"><span class="productname">Microsoft + Visual C</span></a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">MVCC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="mvcc.html" title="Chapter 13. Concurrency Control">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">NLS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" target="_top">National + Language Support</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ODBC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity" target="_top">Open + Database Connectivity</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">OID</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="datatype-oid.html" title="8.19. Object Identifier Types">Object Identifier</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">OLAP</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap" target="_top">Online Analytical + Processing</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">OLTP</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP" target="_top">Online Transaction + Processing</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">ORDBMS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS" target="_top">Object-Relational + Database Management System</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PAM</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules" target="_top">Pluggable + Authentication Modules</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PGSQL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation"><span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span></a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PGXS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="extend-pgxs.html" title="38.18. Extension Building Infrastructure"><span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> Extension System</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PID</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier" target="_top">Process Identifier</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PITR</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="continuous-archiving.html" title="26.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)">Point-In-Time + Recovery</a> (Continuous Archiving) + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">PL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="server-programming.html" title="Part V. Server Programming">Procedural Languages (server-side)</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">POSIX</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX" target="_top">Portable Operating + System Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">RDBMS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system" target="_top">Relational + Database Management System</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">RFC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments" target="_top">Request For + Comments</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SGML</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML" target="_top">Standard Generalized + Markup Language</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SNI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication" target="_top"> + Server Name Indication</a>, + <a class="ulink" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3" target="_top">RFC 6066</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SPI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="spi.html" title="Chapter 47. Server Programming Interface">Server Programming Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SP-GiST</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="spgist.html" title="Chapter 69. SP-GiST Indexes">Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SQL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL" target="_top">Structured Query Language</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SRF</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-RETURN-SET" title="38.10.8. Returning Sets">Set-Returning Function</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SSH</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell" target="_top">Secure + Shell</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SSL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer" target="_top">Secure Sockets Layer</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SSPI</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx" target="_top">Security + Support Provider Interface</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">SYSV</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V" target="_top">Unix System V</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">TCP/IP</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol" target="_top">Transmission + Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">TID</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="datatype-oid.html" title="8.19. Object Identifier Types">Tuple Identifier</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">TLS</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security" target="_top"> + Transport Layer Security</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">TOAST</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="storage-toast.html" title="73.2. TOAST">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">TPC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="http://www.tpc.org/" target="_top">Transaction Processing + Performance Council</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">URL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL" target="_top">Uniform Resource + Locator</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">UTC</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" target="_top">Coordinated + Universal Time</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">UTF</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://www.unicode.org/" target="_top">Unicode Transformation + Format</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">UTF8</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8" target="_top">Eight-Bit Unicode + Transformation Format</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">UUID</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="datatype-uuid.html" title="8.12. UUID Type">Universally Unique Identifier</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">WAL</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="wal.html" title="Chapter 30. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log">Write-Ahead Log</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">XID</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="link" href="datatype-oid.html" title="8.19. Object Identifier Types">Transaction Identifier</a> + </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym></span></dt><dd><p> + <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" target="_top">Extensible Markup + Language</a> + </p></dd></dl></div><p> + </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="limits.html" title="Appendix K. PostgreSQL Limits">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixes.html" title="Part VIII. 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