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3 <appendix id="acronyms">
4 <title>Acronyms</title>
6 <para>
7 This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
8 documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
10 <variablelist>
12 <varlistentry>
13 <term><acronym>ACL</acronym></term>
14 <listitem>
15 <para>
16 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access-control_list">Access Control List</ulink>
17 </para>
18 </listitem>
19 </varlistentry>
21 <varlistentry>
22 <term><acronym>AM</acronym></term>
23 <listitem>
24 <para>
25 <link linkend="glossary-am">Access Method</link>
26 </para>
27 </listitem>
28 </varlistentry>
30 <varlistentry>
31 <term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>
34 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
35 American National Standards Institute</ulink>
36 </para>
37 </listitem>
38 </varlistentry>
40 <varlistentry>
41 <term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
45 </para>
46 </listitem>
47 </varlistentry>
49 <varlistentry>
50 <term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII">American Standard
54 Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 </varlistentry>
59 <varlistentry>
60 <term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 <link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 </varlistentry>
68 <varlistentry>
69 <term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </varlistentry>
77 <varlistentry>
78 <term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>
81 <ulink
82 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
83 Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
84 </para>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>
92 <ulink url="https://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
93 </para>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>
101 <ulink
102 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
103 Revocation List</ulink>
104 </para>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
108 <varlistentry>
109 <term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>
112 <ulink
113 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
114 Separated Values</ulink>
115 </para>
116 </listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
119 <varlistentry>
120 <term><acronym>CTE</acronym></term>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>
123 <link linkend="queries-with">Common Table Expression</link>
124 </para>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
128 <varlistentry>
129 <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>
132 <ulink url="https://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
133 </para>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
137 <varlistentry>
138 <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>
141 <ulink
142 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
143 Administrator</ulink>
144 </para>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
148 <varlistentry>
149 <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>
152 <ulink url="https://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
153 </para>
154 </listitem>
155 </varlistentry>
157 <varlistentry>
158 <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>
161 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Database_management_system">Database Management
162 System</ulink>
163 </para>
164 </listitem>
165 </varlistentry>
167 <varlistentry>
168 <term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>
171 <ulink
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>
175 </para>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
179 <varlistentry>
180 <term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>
183 <ulink
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>
187 </para>
188 </listitem>
189 </varlistentry>
191 <varlistentry>
192 <term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
193 <listitem>
194 <para>
195 <ulink
196 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
197 Saving Time</ulink>
198 </para>
199 </listitem>
200 </varlistentry>
202 <varlistentry>
203 <term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>
206 <link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
207 </para>
208 </listitem>
209 </varlistentry>
211 <varlistentry>
212 <term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>
215 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
216 SQL</ulink>
217 </para>
218 </listitem>
219 </varlistentry>
221 <varlistentry>
222 <term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>
225 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
226 Questions</ulink>
227 </para>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
231 <varlistentry>
232 <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>
235 <link linkend="storage-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
236 </para>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
240 <varlistentry>
241 <term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>
244 <link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
245 </para>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
249 <varlistentry>
250 <term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>
253 <link linkend="gin">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
254 </para>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
258 <varlistentry>
259 <term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>
262 <link linkend="gist">Generalized Search Tree</link>
263 </para>
264 </listitem>
265 </varlistentry>
267 <varlistentry>
268 <term><acronym>Git</acronym></term>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>
271 <ulink
272 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git">Git</ulink>
273 </para>
274 </listitem>
275 </varlistentry>
277 <varlistentry>
278 <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>
281 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
282 </para>
283 </listitem>
284 </varlistentry>
286 <varlistentry>
287 <term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
288 <listitem>
289 <para>
290 <ulink
291 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
292 Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
293 </para>
294 </listitem>
295 </varlistentry>
297 <varlistentry>
298 <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
299 <listitem>
300 <para>
301 <link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,
302 the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> subsystem that handles server configuration
303 </para>
304 </listitem>
305 </varlistentry>
307 <varlistentry>
308 <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>
311 <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>
312 </para>
313 </listitem>
314 </varlistentry>
316 <varlistentry>
317 <term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
318 <listitem>
319 <para>
320 <link linkend="storage-hot">Heap-Only Tuples</link>
321 </para>
322 </listitem>
323 </varlistentry>
325 <varlistentry>
326 <term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>
329 <ulink
330 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
331 Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
332 </para>
333 </listitem>
334 </varlistentry>
336 <varlistentry>
337 <term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>
340 <ulink url="https://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
341 Electronics Engineers</ulink>
342 </para>
343 </listitem>
344 </varlistentry>
346 <varlistentry>
347 <term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>
350 <ulink
351 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
352 Communication</ulink>
353 </para>
354 </listitem>
355 </varlistentry>
357 <varlistentry>
358 <term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
359 <listitem>
360 <para>
361 <ulink url="https://www.iso.org/home.html">International Organization for
362 Standardization</ulink>
363 </para>
364 </listitem>
365 </varlistentry>
367 <varlistentry>
368 <term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>
371 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN">International Standard
372 Serial Number</ulink>
373 </para>
374 </listitem>
375 </varlistentry>
377 <varlistentry>
378 <term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
379 <listitem>
380 <para>
381 <ulink
382 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
383 Database Connectivity</ulink>
384 </para>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
388 <varlistentry>
389 <term><acronym>JIT</acronym></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>
392 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation">Just-in-Time
393 compilation</ulink>
394 </para>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
398 <varlistentry>
399 <term><acronym>JSON</acronym></term>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>
402 <ulink
403 url="https://www.json.org">JavaScript Object Notation</ulink>
404 </para>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
408 <varlistentry>
409 <term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>
412 <ulink
413 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
414 Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
415 </para>
416 </listitem>
417 </varlistentry>
419 <varlistentry>
420 <term><acronym>LSN</acronym></term>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>
423 <glossterm linkend="glossary-log-sequence-number">Log Sequence Number</glossterm>
424 </para>
425 </listitem>
426 </varlistentry>
428 <varlistentry>
429 <term><acronym>MCF</acronym></term>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>
432 Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with some
433 Most Common Value
434 </para>
435 </listitem>
436 </varlistentry>
438 <varlistentry>
439 <term><acronym>MCV</acronym></term>
440 <listitem>
441 <para>
442 Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within a
443 particular table column
444 </para>
445 </listitem>
446 </varlistentry>
448 <varlistentry>
449 <term><acronym>MITM</acronym></term>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>
452 <ulink
453 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack">
454 Man-in-the-middle attack</ulink>
455 </para>
456 </listitem>
457 </varlistentry>
459 <varlistentry>
460 <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
461 <listitem>
462 <para>
463 <ulink
464 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B"><productname>Microsoft
465 Visual C</productname></ulink>
466 </para>
467 </listitem>
468 </varlistentry>
470 <varlistentry>
471 <term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
472 <listitem>
473 <para>
474 <link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
475 </para>
476 </listitem>
477 </varlistentry>
479 <varlistentry>
480 <term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>
483 <ulink
484 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
485 Language Support</ulink>
486 </para>
487 </listitem>
488 </varlistentry>
490 <varlistentry>
491 <term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>
494 <ulink
495 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
496 Database Connectivity</ulink>
497 </para>
498 </listitem>
499 </varlistentry>
501 <varlistentry>
502 <term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
503 <listitem>
504 <para>
505 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
506 </para>
507 </listitem>
508 </varlistentry>
510 <varlistentry>
511 <term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
512 <listitem>
513 <para>
514 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing">Online Analytical
515 Processing</ulink>
516 </para>
517 </listitem>
518 </varlistentry>
520 <varlistentry>
521 <term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>
524 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_transaction_processing">Online Transaction
525 Processing</ulink>
526 </para>
527 </listitem>
528 </varlistentry>
530 <varlistentry>
531 <term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>
534 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_database">Object-Relational
535 Database Management System</ulink>
536 </para>
537 </listitem>
538 </varlistentry>
540 <varlistentry>
541 <term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
542 <listitem>
543 <para>
544 <ulink
545 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module">Pluggable
546 Authentication Modules</ulink>
547 </para>
548 </listitem>
549 </varlistentry>
551 <varlistentry>
552 <term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
553 <listitem>
554 <para>
555 <link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname></link>
556 </para>
557 </listitem>
558 </varlistentry>
560 <varlistentry>
561 <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>
564 <link linkend="extend-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Extension System</link>
565 </para>
566 </listitem>
567 </varlistentry>
569 <varlistentry>
570 <term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
571 <listitem>
572 <para>
573 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
574 </para>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
578 <varlistentry>
579 <term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>
582 <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
583 Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)
584 </para>
585 </listitem>
586 </varlistentry>
588 <varlistentry>
589 <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
590 <listitem>
591 <para>
592 <link linkend="server-programming">Procedural Languages (server-side)</link>
593 </para>
594 </listitem>
595 </varlistentry>
597 <varlistentry>
598 <term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>
601 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
602 System Interface</ulink>
603 </para>
604 </listitem>
605 </varlistentry>
607 <varlistentry>
608 <term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
609 <listitem>
610 <para>
611 <ulink
612 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database#RDBMS">Relational
613 Database Management System</ulink>
614 </para>
615 </listitem>
616 </varlistentry>
618 <varlistentry>
619 <term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>
622 <ulink
623 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
624 Comments</ulink>
625 </para>
626 </listitem>
627 </varlistentry>
629 <varlistentry>
630 <term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
631 <listitem>
632 <para>
633 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language">Standard Generalized
634 Markup Language</ulink>
635 </para>
636 </listitem>
637 </varlistentry>
639 <varlistentry>
640 <term><acronym>SNI</acronym></term>
641 <listitem>
642 <para>
643 <ulink
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>
647 </para>
648 </listitem>
649 </varlistentry>
651 <varlistentry>
652 <term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
653 <listitem>
654 <para>
655 <link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
656 </para>
657 </listitem>
658 </varlistentry>
660 <varlistentry>
661 <term><acronym>SP-GiST</acronym></term>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>
664 <link linkend="spgist">Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree</link>
665 </para>
666 </listitem>
667 </varlistentry>
669 <varlistentry>
670 <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>
673 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
674 </para>
675 </listitem>
676 </varlistentry>
678 <varlistentry>
679 <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
680 <listitem>
681 <para>
682 <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function</link>
683 </para>
684 </listitem>
685 </varlistentry>
687 <varlistentry>
688 <term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
689 <listitem>
690 <para>
691 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
692 Shell</ulink>
693 </para>
694 </listitem>
695 </varlistentry>
697 <varlistentry>
698 <term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
699 <listitem>
700 <para>
701 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#SSL_1.0,_2.0,_and_3.0">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
702 </para>
703 </listitem>
704 </varlistentry>
706 <varlistentry>
707 <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
708 <listitem>
709 <para>
710 <ulink url="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx">Security
711 Support Provider Interface</ulink>
712 </para>
713 </listitem>
714 </varlistentry>
716 <varlistentry>
717 <term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
718 <listitem>
719 <para>
720 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
721 </para>
722 </listitem>
723 </varlistentry>
725 <varlistentry>
726 <term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
727 <listitem>
728 <para>
729 <ulink
730 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
731 Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
732 </para>
733 </listitem>
734 </varlistentry>
736 <varlistentry>
737 <term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
738 <listitem>
739 <para>
740 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
741 </para>
742 </listitem>
743 </varlistentry>
745 <varlistentry>
746 <term><acronym>TLS</acronym></term>
747 <listitem>
748 <para>
749 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security">
750 Transport Layer Security</ulink>
751 </para>
752 </listitem>
753 </varlistentry>
755 <varlistentry>
756 <term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
757 <listitem>
758 <para>
759 <link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
760 </para>
761 </listitem>
762 </varlistentry>
764 <varlistentry>
765 <term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
766 <listitem>
767 <para>
768 <ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
769 Performance Council</ulink>
770 </para>
771 </listitem>
772 </varlistentry>
774 <varlistentry>
775 <term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
776 <listitem>
777 <para>
778 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
779 Locator</ulink>
780 </para>
781 </listitem>
782 </varlistentry>
784 <varlistentry>
785 <term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
786 <listitem>
787 <para>
788 <ulink
789 url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
790 Universal Time</ulink>
791 </para>
792 </listitem>
793 </varlistentry>
795 <varlistentry>
796 <term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>
799 <ulink url="https://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Transformation
800 Format</ulink>
801 </para>
802 </listitem>
803 </varlistentry>
805 <varlistentry>
806 <term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>
809 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">Eight-Bit Unicode
810 Transformation Format</ulink>
811 </para>
812 </listitem>
813 </varlistentry>
815 <varlistentry>
816 <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
817 <listitem>
818 <para>
819 <link linkend="datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier</link>
820 </para>
821 </listitem>
822 </varlistentry>
824 <varlistentry>
825 <term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
826 <listitem>
827 <para>
828 <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
829 </para>
830 </listitem>
831 </varlistentry>
833 <varlistentry>
834 <term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
835 <listitem>
836 <para>
837 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
838 </para>
839 </listitem>
840 </varlistentry>
842 <varlistentry>
843 <term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
844 <listitem>
845 <para>
846 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup
847 Language</ulink>
848 </para>
849 </listitem>
850 </varlistentry>
852 </variablelist>
853 </para>
855 </appendix>