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     ANSI
    
   
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      American National Standards Institute
     
     
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     API
    
   
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      Application Programming Interface
     
     
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     ASCII
    
   
- 
    
     
      American Standard
      Code for Information Interchange
     
     
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     BKI
    
   
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      Backend Interface
     
     
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     CA
    
   
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      Certificate Authority
     
     
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     CIDR
    
   
- 
    
     
      Classless
      Inter-Domain Routing
     
     
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     CPAN
    
   
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      Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
     
     
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     CRL
    
   
- 
    
     
      Certificate
      Revocation List
     
     
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     CSV
    
   
- 
    
     
      Comma
      Separated Values
     
     
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     CTE
    
   
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      Common Table Expression
     
     
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     CVE
    
   
- 
    
     
      Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
     
     
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     DBA
    
   
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      Database
      Administrator
     
     
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     DBI
    
   
- 
    
     
      Database Interface (Perl)
     
     
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     DBMS
    
   
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      Database Management
      System
     
     
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     DDL
    
   
- 
    
     
      Data
      Definition Language
     
     , SQL commands such as
     
      CREATE
      TABLE
     
     ,
     
      ALTER USER
     
     
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     DML
    
   
- 
    
     
      Data
      Manipulation Language
     
     , SQL commands such as
     
      INSERT
     
     ,
     
      UPDATE
     
     ,
     
      DELETE
     
     
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     DST
    
   
- 
    
     
      Daylight
      Saving Time
     
     
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     ECPG
    
   
- 
    
     
      Embedded C for PostgreSQL
     
     
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     ESQL
    
   
- 
    
     
      Embedded
      SQL
     
     
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     FAQ
    
   
- 
    
     
      Frequently Asked
      Questions
     
     
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     FSM
    
   
- 
    
     
      Free Space Map
     
     
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     GEQO
    
   
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      Genetic Query Optimizer
     
     
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     GIN
    
   
- 
    
     
      Generalized Inverted Index
     
     
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     GiST
    
   
- 
    
     
      Generalized Search Tree
     
     
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     Git
    
   
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      Git
     
     
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     GMT
    
   
- 
    
     
      Greenwich Mean Time
     
     
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     GSSAPI
    
   
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      Generic
      Security Services Application Programming Interface
     
     
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     GUC
    
   
- 
    
     
      Grand Unified Configuration
     
     ,
      the
     
      PostgreSQL
     
     subsystem that handles server configuration
     
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     HBA
    
   
- 
    
     
      Host-Based Authentication
     
     
- 
    
     HOT
    
   
- 
    
     
      Heap-Only
      Tuples
     
     
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     IEC
    
   
- 
    
     
      International
      Electrotechnical Commission
     
     
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     IEEE
    
   
- 
    
     
      Institute of Electrical and
      Electronics Engineers
     
     
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     IPC
    
   
- 
    
     
      Inter-Process
      Communication
     
     
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     ISO
    
   
- 
    
     
      International Organization for
      Standardization
     
     
- 
    
     ISSN
    
   
- 
    
     
      International Standard
      Serial Number
     
     
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     JDBC
    
   
- 
    
     
      Java
      Database Connectivity
     
     
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     LDAP
    
   
- 
    
     
      Lightweight
      Directory Access Protocol
     
     
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     MSVC
    
   
- 
    
     
      
       Microsoft
      Visual C
      
     
     
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     MVCC
    
   
- 
    
     
      Multi-Version Concurrency Control
     
     
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     NLS
    
   
- 
    
     
      National
      Language Support
     
     
- 
    
     ODBC
    
   
- 
    
     
      Open
      Database Connectivity
     
     
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     OID
    
   
- 
    
     
      Object Identifier
     
     
- 
    
     OLAP
    
   
- 
    
     
      Online Analytical
      Processing
     
     
- 
    
     OLTP
    
   
- 
    
     
      Online Transaction
      Processing
     
     
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     ORDBMS
    
   
- 
    
     
      Object-Relational
      Database Management System
     
     
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     PAM
    
   
- 
    
     
      Pluggable
      Authentication Modules
     
     
- 
    
     PGSQL
    
   
- 
    
     
      
       PostgreSQL
      
     
     
- 
    
     PGXS
    
   
- 
    
     
      
       PostgreSQL
      
      Extension System
     
     
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     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
     
     
- 
    
     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