-
ANSI
-
American National Standards Institute
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API
-
Application Programming Interface
-
ASCII
-
American Standard
Code for Information Interchange
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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
-
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, see
pg_lsn
and
WAL Internals
.
-
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
-
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