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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</>
8 documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
13 <term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
16 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
17 American National Standards Institute</ulink>
23 <term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
26 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
32 <term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
35 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii">American Standard
36 Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
42 <term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
45 <link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
51 <term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
54 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
60 <term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
64 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
65 Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
71 <term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
74 <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
80 <term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
84 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
85 Revocation List</ulink>
91 <term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
95 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
96 Separated Values</ulink>
102 <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
105 <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
111 <term><acronym>CVS</acronym></term>
115 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">Concurrent
116 Versions System</ulink>
122 <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
126 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
127 Administrator</ulink>
133 <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
136 <ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
142 <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
145 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms">Database Management
152 <term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
156 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data
157 Definition Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>CREATE
158 TABLE</>, <command>ALTER USER</>
164 <term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
168 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
169 Manipulation Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>INSERT</>,
170 <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>
176 <term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
180 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
187 <term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
190 <link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
196 <term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
199 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
206 <term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
209 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
216 <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
219 <link linkend="runtime-config-resource-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
225 <term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
228 <link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
234 <term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
237 <link linkend="GIN">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
243 <term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
246 <link linkend="GiST">Generalized Search Tree</link>
252 <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
255 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
261 <term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
265 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
266 Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
272 <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
275 <link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,
276 the <productname>PostgreSQL</> subsystem that handles server configuration
282 <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
285 <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>
291 <term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
295 url="http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT">Heap-Only
302 <term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
306 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
307 Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
313 <term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
316 <ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
317 Electronics Engineers</ulink>
323 <term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
327 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
328 Communication</ulink>
334 <term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
337 <ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Standards
344 <term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
347 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn">International Standard
348 Serial Number</ulink>
354 <term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
358 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
359 Database Connectivity</ulink>
365 <term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
369 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
370 Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
376 <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
380 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"><productname>Microsoft
381 Visual C</productname></ulink>
387 <term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
390 <link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
396 <term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
400 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
401 Language Support</ulink>
407 <term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
411 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
412 Database Connectivity</ulink>
418 <term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
421 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
427 <term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
430 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap">Online Analytical
437 <term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
440 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP">Online Transaction
447 <term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
450 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS">Object-Relational
451 Database Management System</ulink>
457 <term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
461 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules">Pluggable
462 Authentication Modules</ulink>
468 <term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
471 <link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</></link>
477 <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
480 <link linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
486 <term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
489 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
495 <term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
498 <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
499 Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)
505 <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
508 <link linkend="server-programming">Programming Languages (server-side)</link>
514 <term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
517 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
518 System Interface</ulink>
524 <term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
528 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system">Relational
529 Database Management System</ulink>
535 <term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
539 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
546 <term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
549 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">Standard Generalized
550 Markup Language</ulink>
556 <term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
559 <link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
565 <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
568 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
574 <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
577 <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function</link>
583 <term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
586 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
593 <term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
596 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
602 <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
605 <ulink url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493.aspx">Security
606 Support Provider Interface</ulink>
612 <term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
615 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
621 <term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
625 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
626 Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
632 <term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
635 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
641 <term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
644 <link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
650 <term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
653 <ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
654 Performance Council</ulink>
660 <term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
663 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
670 <term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
674 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
675 Universal Time</ulink>
681 <term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
684 <ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Transformation
691 <term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
694 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8">Eight-Bit Unicode
695 Transformation Format</ulink>
701 <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
704 <link linkend="datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier</link>
710 <term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
713 <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
719 <term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
722 <link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
728 <term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
731 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup