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<appendix id="acronyms">
<title>Acronyms</title>
<para>
This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <productname>PostgreSQL</>
documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
American National Standards Institute</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii">American Standard
Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
Revocation List</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
Separated Values</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CTE</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="queries-with">Common Table Expression</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
Administrator</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms">Database Management
System</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data
Definition Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>CREATE
TABLE</>, <command>ALTER USER</>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
Manipulation Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>INSERT</>,
<command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
Saving Time</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
SQL</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
Questions</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="storage-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="GIN">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="GiST">Generalized Search Tree</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>Git</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)">Git</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,
the <productname>PostgreSQL</> subsystem that handles server configuration
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT;hb=HEAD">Heap-Only
Tuples</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
Communication</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Organization for
Standardization</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn">International Standard
Serial Number</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
Database Connectivity</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>LSN</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Log Sequence Number, see <link linkend="datatype-pg-lsn"><type>pg_lsn</></link>
and <link linkend="wal-internals">WAL Internals</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"><productname>Microsoft
Visual C</productname></ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
Language Support</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
Database Connectivity</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap">Online Analytical
Processing</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP">Online Transaction
Processing</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS">Object-Relational
Database Management System</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules">Pluggable
Authentication Modules</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</></link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="extend-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="server-programming">Procedural Languages (server-side)</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
System Interface</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system">Relational
Database Management System</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
Comments</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">Standard Generalized
Markup Language</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SP-GiST</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="SPGiST">Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
Shell</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx">Security
Support Provider Interface</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
Performance Council</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
Locator</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
Universal Time</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Transformation
Format</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8">Eight-Bit Unicode
Transformation Format</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup
Language</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</appendix>
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