Appendix L. Acronyms

Appendix L. Acronyms
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+ This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the PostgreSQL + documentation and in discussions about PostgreSQL. + +

ANSI: + + American National Standards Institute +
API: + Application Programming Interface +
ASCII: + American Standard + Code for Information Interchange +
BKI: + Backend Interface +
CA: + Certificate Authority +
CIDR: + Classless + Inter-Domain Routing +
CPAN: + Comprehensive Perl Archive Network +
CRL: + Certificate + Revocation List +
CSV: + Comma + Separated Values +
CTE: + Common Table Expression +
CVE: + Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures +
DBA: + Database + Administrator +
DBI: + Database Interface (Perl) +
DBMS: + Database Management + System +
DDL: + Data + Definition Language, SQL commands such as CREATE + TABLE, ALTER USER +
DML: + Data + Manipulation Language, SQL commands such as INSERT, + UPDATE, DELETE +
DST: + Daylight + Saving Time +
ECPG: + Embedded C for PostgreSQL +
ESQL: + Embedded + SQL +
FAQ: + Frequently Asked + Questions +
FSM: + Free Space Map +
GEQO: + Genetic Query Optimizer +
GIN: + Generalized Inverted Index +
GiST: + Generalized Search Tree +
Git: + Git +
GMT: + Greenwich Mean Time +
GSSAPI: + Generic + Security Services Application Programming Interface +
GUC: + Grand Unified Configuration, + the PostgreSQL subsystem that handles server configuration +
HBA: + Host-Based Authentication +
HOT: + Heap-Only Tuples +
IEC: + International + Electrotechnical Commission +
IEEE: + Institute of Electrical and + Electronics Engineers +
IPC: + Inter-Process + Communication +
ISO: + International Organization for + Standardization +
ISSN: + International Standard + Serial Number +
JDBC: + Java + Database Connectivity +
JIT: + Just-in-Time + compilation +
JSON: + JavaScript Object Notation +
LDAP: + Lightweight + Directory Access Protocol +
LSN: + Log Sequence Number, see pg_lsn + and WAL Internals. +
MITM: + + Man-in-the-middle attack +
MSVC: + Microsoft + Visual C +
MVCC: + Multi-Version Concurrency Control +
NLS: + National + Language Support +
ODBC: + Open + Database Connectivity +
OID: + Object Identifier +
OLAP: + Online Analytical + Processing +
OLTP: + Online Transaction + Processing +
ORDBMS: + Object-Relational + Database Management System +
PAM: + Pluggable + Authentication Modules +
PGSQL: + PostgreSQL +
PGXS: + PostgreSQL Extension System +
PID: + Process Identifier +
PITR: + Point-In-Time + Recovery (Continuous Archiving) +
PL: + Procedural Languages (server-side) +
POSIX: + Portable Operating + System Interface +
RDBMS: + Relational + Database Management System +
RFC: + Request For + Comments +
SGML: + Standard Generalized + Markup Language +
SNI: + + Server Name Indication, + RFC 6066 +
SPI: + Server Programming Interface +
SP-GiST: + Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree +
SQL: + Structured Query Language +
SRF: + Set-Returning Function +
SSH: + Secure + Shell +
SSL: + Secure Sockets Layer +
SSPI: + Security + Support Provider Interface +
SYSV: + Unix System V +
TCP/IP: + Transmission + Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) +
TID: + Tuple Identifier +
TLS: + + Transport Layer Security +
TOAST: + The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique +
TPC: + Transaction Processing + Performance Council +
URL: + Uniform Resource + Locator +
UTC: + Coordinated + Universal Time +
UTF: + Unicode Transformation + Format +
UTF8: + Eight-Bit Unicode + Transformation Format +
UUID: + Universally Unique Identifier +
WAL: + Write-Ahead Log +
XID: + Transaction Identifier +
XML: + Extensible Markup + Language +

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