Acronyms
This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the PostgreSQL documentation and in discussions about PostgreSQL.
AM : Access Method
ANSI : American National Standards Institute
API : Application Programming Interface
ASCII : American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BKI : Backend Interface
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
MCF : Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with some Most Common Value
MCV : Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within a particular table column
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