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Acronyms
This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the PostgreSQL documentation and in discussions about PostgreSQL.
- AIO
- Asynchronous I/O
- ACL
- Access Control List
- AM
- Access Method
- 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
- I/O
- Input/Output
- 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
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language