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3 <appendix id=
"acronyms">
4 <title>Acronyms
</title>
7 This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the
<productname>PostgreSQL
</productname>
8 documentation and in discussions about
<productname>PostgreSQL
</productname>.
13 <term><acronym>ACL
</acronym></term>
16 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access-control_list">Access Control List
</ulink>
22 <term><acronym>AM
</acronym></term>
25 <link linkend=
"glossary-am">Access Method
</link>
31 <term><acronym>ANSI
</acronym></term>
34 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
35 American National Standards Institute
</ulink>
41 <term><acronym>API
</acronym></term>
44 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface
</ulink>
50 <term><acronym>ASCII
</acronym></term>
53 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII">American Standard
54 Code for Information Interchange
</ulink>
60 <term><acronym>BKI
</acronym></term>
63 <link linkend=
"bki">Backend Interface
</link>
69 <term><acronym>CA
</acronym></term>
72 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority
</ulink>
78 <term><acronym>CIDR
</acronym></term>
82 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
83 Inter-Domain Routing
</ulink>
89 <term><acronym>CPAN
</acronym></term>
92 <ulink url=
"https://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
</ulink>
98 <term><acronym>CRL
</acronym></term>
102 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
103 Revocation List
</ulink>
109 <term><acronym>CSV
</acronym></term>
113 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
114 Separated Values
</ulink>
120 <term><acronym>CTE
</acronym></term>
123 <link linkend=
"queries-with">Common Table Expression
</link>
129 <term><acronym>CVE
</acronym></term>
132 <ulink url=
"https://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
</ulink>
138 <term><acronym>DBA
</acronym></term>
142 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
143 Administrator
</ulink>
149 <term><acronym>DBI
</acronym></term>
152 <ulink url=
"https://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)
</ulink>
158 <term><acronym>DBMS
</acronym></term>
161 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Database_management_system">Database Management
168 <term><acronym>DDL
</acronym></term>
172 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_definition_language">Data
173 Definition Language
</ulink>, SQL commands such as
<command>CREATE
174 TABLE
</command>,
<command>ALTER USER
</command>
180 <term><acronym>DML
</acronym></term>
184 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language">Data
185 Manipulation Language
</ulink>, SQL commands such as
<command>INSERT
</command>,
186 <command>UPDATE
</command>,
<command>DELETE
</command>
192 <term><acronym>DST
</acronym></term>
196 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
203 <term><acronym>ECPG
</acronym></term>
206 <link linkend=
"ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL
</link>
212 <term><acronym>ESQL
</acronym></term>
215 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
222 <term><acronym>FAQ
</acronym></term>
225 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
232 <term><acronym>FSM
</acronym></term>
235 <link linkend=
"storage-fsm">Free Space Map
</link>
241 <term><acronym>GEQO
</acronym></term>
244 <link linkend=
"geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer
</link>
250 <term><acronym>GIN
</acronym></term>
253 <link linkend=
"gin">Generalized Inverted Index
</link>
259 <term><acronym>GiST
</acronym></term>
262 <link linkend=
"gist">Generalized Search Tree
</link>
268 <term><acronym>Git
</acronym></term>
272 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git">Git
</ulink>
278 <term><acronym>GMT
</acronym></term>
281 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time">Greenwich Mean Time
</ulink>
287 <term><acronym>GSSAPI
</acronym></term>
291 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
292 Security Services Application Programming Interface
</ulink>
298 <term><acronym>GUC
</acronym></term>
301 <link linkend=
"config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration
</link>,
302 the
<productname>PostgreSQL
</productname> subsystem that handles server configuration
308 <term><acronym>HBA
</acronym></term>
311 <link linkend=
"auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication
</link>
317 <term><acronym>HOT
</acronym></term>
320 <link linkend=
"storage-hot">Heap-Only Tuples
</link>
326 <term><acronym>IEC
</acronym></term>
330 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
331 Electrotechnical Commission
</ulink>
337 <term><acronym>IEEE
</acronym></term>
340 <ulink url=
"https://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
341 Electronics Engineers
</ulink>
347 <term><acronym>IPC
</acronym></term>
351 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
352 Communication
</ulink>
358 <term><acronym>ISO
</acronym></term>
361 <ulink url=
"https://www.iso.org/home.html">International Organization for
362 Standardization
</ulink>
368 <term><acronym>ISSN
</acronym></term>
371 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN">International Standard
372 Serial Number
</ulink>
378 <term><acronym>JDBC
</acronym></term>
382 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
383 Database Connectivity
</ulink>
389 <term><acronym>JIT
</acronym></term>
392 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation">Just-in-Time
399 <term><acronym>JSON
</acronym></term>
403 url=
"https://www.json.org">JavaScript Object Notation
</ulink>
409 <term><acronym>LDAP
</acronym></term>
413 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
414 Directory Access Protocol
</ulink>
420 <term><acronym>LSN
</acronym></term>
423 <glossterm linkend=
"glossary-log-sequence-number">Log Sequence Number
</glossterm>
429 <term><acronym>MCF
</acronym></term>
432 Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with some
439 <term><acronym>MCV
</acronym></term>
442 Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within a
443 particular table column
449 <term><acronym>MITM
</acronym></term>
453 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack">
454 Man-in-the-middle attack
</ulink>
460 <term><acronym>MSVC
</acronym></term>
464 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B"><productname>Microsoft
465 Visual C
</productname></ulink>
471 <term><acronym>MVCC
</acronym></term>
474 <link linkend=
"mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control
</link>
480 <term><acronym>NLS
</acronym></term>
484 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
485 Language Support
</ulink>
491 <term><acronym>ODBC
</acronym></term>
495 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
496 Database Connectivity
</ulink>
502 <term><acronym>OID
</acronym></term>
505 <link linkend=
"datatype-oid">Object Identifier
</link>
511 <term><acronym>OLAP
</acronym></term>
514 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing">Online Analytical
521 <term><acronym>OLTP
</acronym></term>
524 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_transaction_processing">Online Transaction
531 <term><acronym>ORDBMS
</acronym></term>
534 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_database">Object-Relational
535 Database Management System
</ulink>
541 <term><acronym>PAM
</acronym></term>
545 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module">Pluggable
546 Authentication Modules
</ulink>
552 <term><acronym>PGSQL
</acronym></term>
555 <link linkend=
"postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL
</productname></link>
561 <term><acronym>PGXS
</acronym></term>
564 <link linkend=
"extend-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL
</productname> Extension System
</link>
570 <term><acronym>PID
</acronym></term>
573 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier
</ulink>
579 <term><acronym>PITR
</acronym></term>
582 <link linkend=
"continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
583 Recovery
</link> (Continuous Archiving)
589 <term><acronym>PL
</acronym></term>
592 <link linkend=
"server-programming">Procedural Languages (server-side)
</link>
598 <term><acronym>POSIX
</acronym></term>
601 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
602 System Interface
</ulink>
608 <term><acronym>RDBMS
</acronym></term>
612 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database#RDBMS">Relational
613 Database Management System
</ulink>
619 <term><acronym>RFC
</acronym></term>
623 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
630 <term><acronym>SGML
</acronym></term>
633 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language">Standard Generalized
634 Markup Language
</ulink>
640 <term><acronym>SNI
</acronym></term>
644 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication">
645 Server Name Indication
</ulink>,
646 <ulink url=
"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6066#section-3">RFC
6066</ulink>
652 <term><acronym>SPI
</acronym></term>
655 <link linkend=
"spi">Server Programming Interface
</link>
661 <term><acronym>SP-GiST
</acronym></term>
664 <link linkend=
"spgist">Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
</link>
670 <term><acronym>SQL
</acronym></term>
673 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language
</ulink>
679 <term><acronym>SRF
</acronym></term>
682 <link linkend=
"xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function
</link>
688 <term><acronym>SSH
</acronym></term>
691 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
698 <term><acronym>SSL
</acronym></term>
701 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#SSL_1.0,_2.0,_and_3.0">Secure Sockets Layer
</ulink>
707 <term><acronym>SSPI
</acronym></term>
710 <ulink url=
"https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx">Security
711 Support Provider Interface
</ulink>
717 <term><acronym>SYSV
</acronym></term>
720 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V">Unix System V
</ulink>
726 <term><acronym>TCP/IP
</acronym></term>
730 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
731 Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)
</ulink>
737 <term><acronym>TID
</acronym></term>
740 <link linkend=
"datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier
</link>
746 <term><acronym>TLS
</acronym></term>
749 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security">
750 Transport Layer Security
</ulink>
756 <term><acronym>TOAST
</acronym></term>
759 <link linkend=
"storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
</link>
765 <term><acronym>TPC
</acronym></term>
768 <ulink url=
"http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
769 Performance Council
</ulink>
775 <term><acronym>URL
</acronym></term>
778 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
785 <term><acronym>UTC
</acronym></term>
789 url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
790 Universal Time
</ulink>
796 <term><acronym>UTF
</acronym></term>
799 <ulink url=
"https://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Transformation
806 <term><acronym>UTF8
</acronym></term>
809 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">Eight-Bit Unicode
810 Transformation Format
</ulink>
816 <term><acronym>UUID
</acronym></term>
819 <link linkend=
"datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier
</link>
825 <term><acronym>WAL
</acronym></term>
828 <link linkend=
"wal">Write-Ahead Log
</link>
834 <term><acronym>XID
</acronym></term>
837 <link linkend=
"datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier
</link>
843 <term><acronym>XML
</acronym></term>
846 <ulink url=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup