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   3 <appendix id="acronymns">
   4  <title>Acronyms</title>
   5
   6  <para>
   7   This is a list of acronymns used in the documentation.
   8
   9   <variablelist>
  10
  11    <varlistentry>
  12     <term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
  13     <listitem>
  14      <para>
  15       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
  16       American National Standards Institute</ulink>
  17      </para>
  18     </listitem>
  19    </varlistentry>
  20
  21    <varlistentry>
  22     <term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
  23     <listitem>
  24      <para>
  25       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
  26      </para>
  27     </listitem>
  28    </varlistentry>
  29
  30    <varlistentry>
  31     <term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
  32     <listitem>
  33      <para>
  34       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii">American Standard
  35       Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
  36      </para>
  37     </listitem>
  38    </varlistentry>
  39
  40    <varlistentry>
  41     <term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
  42     <listitem>
  43      <para>
  44       <link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
  45      </para>
  46     </listitem>
  47    </varlistentry>
  48
  49    <varlistentry>
  50     <term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
  51     <listitem>
  52      <para>
  53       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
  54      </para>
  55     </listitem>
  56    </varlistentry>
  57
  58    <varlistentry>
  59     <term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
  60     <listitem>
  61      <para>
  62       <ulink
  63       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
  64       Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
  65      </para>
  66     </listitem>
  67    </varlistentry>
  68
  69    <varlistentry>
  70     <term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
  71     <listitem>
  72      <para>
  73       <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
  74      </para>
  75     </listitem>
  76    </varlistentry>
  77
  78    <varlistentry>
  79     <term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
  80     <listitem>
  81      <para>
  82       <ulink
  83       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
  84       Revocation List</ulink>
  85      </para>
  86     </listitem>
  87    </varlistentry>
  88
  89    <varlistentry>
  90     <term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
  91     <listitem>
  92      <para>
  93       <ulink
  94       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
  95       Separated Values</ulink>
  96      </para>
  97     </listitem>
  98    </varlistentry>
  99
 100    <varlistentry>
 101     <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
 102     <listitem>
 103      <para>
 104       <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
 105      </para>
 106     </listitem>
 107    </varlistentry>
 108
 109    <varlistentry>
 110     <term><acronym>CVS</acronym></term>
 111     <listitem>
 112      <para>
 113       <ulink
 114       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">Concurrent
 115       Versions System</ulink>
 116      </para>
 117     </listitem>
 118    </varlistentry>
 119
 120    <varlistentry>
 121     <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
 122     <listitem>
 123      <para>
 124       <ulink
 125       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
 126       Administrator</ulink>
 127      </para>
 128     </listitem>
 129    </varlistentry>
 130
 131    <varlistentry>
 132     <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
 133     <listitem>
 134      <para>
 135       <ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
 136      </para>
 137     </listitem>
 138    </varlistentry>
 139
 140    <varlistentry>
 141     <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
 142     <listitem>
 143      <para>
 144       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms">Database Management
 145       System</ulink>
 146      </para>
 147     </listitem>
 148    </varlistentry>
 149
 150    <varlistentry>
 151     <term><acronym>DCL</acronym></term>
 152     <listitem>
 153      <para>
 154       <ulink
 155       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Control_Language">Data
 156       Control Language</ulink>, e.g. <command>GRANT</>,
 157       <command>REVOKE</>
 158      </para>
 159     </listitem>
 160    </varlistentry>
 161
 162    <varlistentry>
 163     <term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
 164     <listitem>
 165      <para>
 166       <ulink
 167       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data
 168       Definition Language</ulink>, e.g. <command>CREATE TABLE</>,
 169       <command>ALTER USER</>
 170      </para>
 171     </listitem>
 172    </varlistentry>
 173
 174    <varlistentry>
 175     <term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
 176     <listitem>
 177      <para>
 178       <ulink
 179       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
 180       Manipulation Language</ulink>, e.g INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
 181      </para>
 182     </listitem>
 183    </varlistentry>
 184
 185    <varlistentry>
 186     <term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
 187     <listitem>
 188      <para>
 189       <ulink
 190       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
 191       Saving Time</ulink>
 192      </para>
 193     </listitem>
 194    </varlistentry>
 195
 196    <varlistentry>
 197     <term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
 198     <listitem>
 199      <para>
 200       <link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
 201      </para>
 202     </listitem>
 203    </varlistentry>
 204
 205    <varlistentry>
 206     <term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
 207     <listitem>
 208      <para>
 209       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
 210       SQL</ulink>
 211      </para>
 212     </listitem>
 213    </varlistentry>
 214
 215    <varlistentry>
 216     <term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
 217     <listitem>
 218      <para>
 219       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
 220       Questions</ulink>
 221      </para>
 222     </listitem>
 223    </varlistentry>
 224
 225    <varlistentry>
 226     <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
 227     <listitem>
 228      <para>
 229       <link linkend="runtime-config-resource-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
 230      </para>
 231     </listitem>
 232    </varlistentry>
 233
 234    <varlistentry>
 235     <term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
 236     <listitem>
 237      <para>
 238       <link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
 239      </para>
 240     </listitem>
 241    </varlistentry>
 242
 243    <varlistentry>
 244     <term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
 245     <listitem>
 246      <para>
 247       <link linkend="GIN">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
 248      </para>
 249     </listitem>
 250    </varlistentry>
 251
 252    <varlistentry>
 253     <term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
 254     <listitem>
 255      <para>
 256       <link linkend="GiST">Generalized Search Tree</link>
 257      </para>
 258     </listitem>
 259    </varlistentry>
 260
 261    <varlistentry>
 262     <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
 263     <listitem>
 264      <para>
 265       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
 266      </para>
 267     </listitem>
 268    </varlistentry>
 269
 270    <varlistentry>
 271     <term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
 272     <listitem>
 273      <para>
 274       <ulink
 275       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
 276       Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
 277      </para>
 278     </listitem>
 279    </varlistentry>
 280
 281    <varlistentry>
 282     <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
 283     <listitem>
 284      <para>
 285       <link linkend="config-setting">Global User Configuration</link>,
 286       e.g. <filename>postgresql.conf</>
 287      </para>
 288     </listitem>
 289    </varlistentry>
 290
 291    <varlistentry>
 292     <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
 293     <listitem>
 294      <para>
 295       <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>,
 296       e.g. <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
 297      </para>
 298     </listitem>
 299    </varlistentry>
 300
 301    <varlistentry>
 302     <term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
 303     <listitem>
 304      <para>
 305       <ulink
 306       url="http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT">Heap-Only
 307       Tuples</ulink>
 308      </para>
 309     </listitem>
 310    </varlistentry>
 311
 312    <varlistentry>
 313     <term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
 314     <listitem>
 315      <para>
 316       <ulink
 317       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
 318       Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
 319      </para>
 320     </listitem>
 321    </varlistentry>
 322
 323    <varlistentry>
 324     <term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
 325     <listitem>
 326      <para>
 327       <ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
 328       Electronics Engineers</ulink>, e.g. IEEE Standard for Binary
 329       Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)
 330      </para>
 331     </listitem>
 332    </varlistentry>
 333
 334    <varlistentry>
 335     <term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
 336     <listitem>
 337      <para>
 338       <ulink
 339       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
 340       Communication</ulink>
 341      </para>
 342     </listitem>
 343    </varlistentry>
 344
 345    <varlistentry>
 346     <term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
 347     <listitem>
 348      <para>
 349       <ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Standards
 350       Organization</ulink>, e.g. ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL99 standard)
 351      </para>
 352     </listitem>
 353    </varlistentry>
 354
 355    <varlistentry>
 356     <term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
 357     <listitem>
 358      <para>
 359       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn">International Standard
 360       Serial Number</ulink>
 361      </para>
 362     </listitem>
 363    </varlistentry>
 364
 365    <varlistentry>
 366     <term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
 367     <listitem>
 368      <para>
 369       <ulink
 370       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
 371       Database Connectivity</ulink>
 372      </para>
 373     </listitem>
 374    </varlistentry>
 375
 376    <varlistentry>
 377     <term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
 378     <listitem>
 379      <para>
 380       <ulink
 381       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
 382       Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
 383      </para>
 384     </listitem>
 385    </varlistentry>
 386
 387    <varlistentry>
 388     <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
 389     <listitem>
 390      <para>
 391       <ulink
 392       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"><productname>Microsoft
 393       Visual C</productname></ulink>
 394      </para>
 395     </listitem>
 396    </varlistentry>
 397
 398    <varlistentry>
 399     <term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
 400     <listitem>
 401      <para>
 402       <link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
 403      </para>
 404     </listitem>
 405    </varlistentry>
 406
 407    <varlistentry>
 408     <term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
 409     <listitem>
 410      <para>
 411       <ulink
 412       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
 413       Language Support</ulink>
 414      </para>
 415     </listitem>
 416    </varlistentry>
 417
 418    <varlistentry>
 419     <term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
 420     <listitem>
 421      <para>
 422       <ulink
 423       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
 424       Database Connectivity</ulink>
 425      </para>
 426     </listitem>
 427    </varlistentry>
 428
 429    <varlistentry>
 430     <term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
 431     <listitem>
 432      <para>
 433       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
 434      </para>
 435     </listitem>
 436    </varlistentry>
 437
 438    <varlistentry>
 439     <term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
 440     <listitem>
 441      <para>
 442       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap">Online Analytical
 443       Processing</ulink>
 444      </para>
 445     </listitem>
 446    </varlistentry>
 447
 448    <varlistentry>
 449     <term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
 450     <listitem>
 451      <para>
 452       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP">Online Transaction
 453       Processing</ulink>
 454      </para>
 455     </listitem>
 456    </varlistentry>
 457
 458    <varlistentry>
 459     <term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
 460     <listitem>
 461      <para>
 462       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS">Object-Relational
 463       Database Management System</ulink>
 464      </para>
 465     </listitem>
 466    </varlistentry>
 467
 468    <varlistentry>
 469     <term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
 470     <listitem>
 471      <para>
 472       <ulink
 473       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules">Pluggable
 474       Authentication Modules</ulink>
 475      </para>
 476     </listitem>
 477    </varlistentry>
 478
 479    <varlistentry>
 480     <term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
 481     <listitem>
 482      <para>
 483       <link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</></link>
 484      </para>
 485     </listitem>
 486    </varlistentry>
 487
 488    <varlistentry>
 489     <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
 490     <listitem>
 491      <para>
 492       <link linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
 493      </para>
 494     </listitem>
 495    </varlistentry>
 496
 497    <varlistentry>
 498     <term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
 499     <listitem>
 500      <para>
 501       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
 502      </para>
 503     </listitem>
 504    </varlistentry>
 505
 506    <varlistentry>
 507     <term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
 508     <listitem>
 509      <para>
 510       <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
 511       Recovery</link>, i.e. Continuous Archiving
 512      </para>
 513     </listitem>
 514    </varlistentry>
 515
 516    <varlistentry>
 517     <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
 518     <listitem>
 519      <para>
 520       <link linkend="server-programming">Programming Languages (server-side)</link>
 521      </para>
 522     </listitem>
 523    </varlistentry>
 524
 525    <varlistentry>
 526     <term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
 527     <listitem>
 528      <para>
 529       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
 530       System Interface</ulink>
 531      </para>
 532     </listitem>
 533    </varlistentry>
 534
 535    <varlistentry>
 536     <term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
 537     <listitem>
 538      <para>
 539       <ulink
 540       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system">Relational
 541       Database Management System</ulink>
 542      </para>
 543     </listitem>
 544    </varlistentry>
 545
 546    <varlistentry>
 547     <term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
 548     <listitem>
 549      <para>
 550       <ulink
 551       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
 552       Comments</ulink>
 553      </para>
 554     </listitem>
 555    </varlistentry>
 556
 557    <varlistentry>
 558     <term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
 559     <listitem>
 560      <para>
 561       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">Standard Generalized
 562       Markup Language</ulink>
 563      </para>
 564     </listitem>
 565    </varlistentry>
 566
 567    <varlistentry>
 568     <term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
 569     <listitem>
 570      <para>
 571       <link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
 572      </para>
 573     </listitem>
 574    </varlistentry>
 575
 576    <varlistentry>
 577     <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
 578     <listitem>
 579      <para>
 580       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
 581      </para>
 582     </listitem>
 583    </varlistentry>
 584
 585    <varlistentry>
 586     <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
 587     <listitem>
 588      <para>
 589       <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Functions</link>
 590      </para>
 591     </listitem>
 592    </varlistentry>
 593
 594    <varlistentry>
 595     <term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
 596     <listitem>
 597      <para>
 598       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
 599       Shell</ulink>
 600      </para>
 601     </listitem>
 602    </varlistentry>
 603
 604    <varlistentry>
 605     <term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
 606     <listitem>
 607      <para>
 608       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
 609      </para>
 610     </listitem>
 611    </varlistentry>
 612
 613    <varlistentry>
 614     <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
 615     <listitem>
 616      <para>
 617       <ulink url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493.aspx">Security
 618       Support Provider Interface</ulink>
 619      </para>
 620     </listitem>
 621    </varlistentry>
 622
 623    <varlistentry>
 624     <term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
 625     <listitem>
 626      <para>
 627       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
 628      </para>
 629     </listitem>
 630    </varlistentry>
 631
 632    <varlistentry>
 633     <term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
 634     <listitem>
 635      <para>
 636       <ulink
 637       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
 638       Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
 639      </para>
 640     </listitem>
 641    </varlistentry>
 642
 643    <varlistentry>
 644     <term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
 645     <listitem>
 646      <para>
 647       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
 648      </para>
 649     </listitem>
 650    </varlistentry>
 651
 652    <varlistentry>
 653     <term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
 654     <listitem>
 655      <para>
 656       <link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
 657      </para>
 658     </listitem>
 659    </varlistentry>
 660
 661    <varlistentry>
 662     <term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
 663     <listitem>
 664      <para>
 665       <ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
 666       Performance Council</ulink>
 667      </para>
 668     </listitem>
 669    </varlistentry>
 670
 671    <varlistentry>
 672     <term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
 673     <listitem>
 674      <para>
 675       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
 676       Locator</ulink>
 677      </para>
 678     </listitem>
 679    </varlistentry>
 680
 681    <varlistentry>
 682     <term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
 683     <listitem>
 684      <para>
 685       <ulink
 686       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
 687       Universal Time</ulink>
 688      </para>
 689     </listitem>
 690    </varlistentry>
 691
 692    <varlistentry>
 693     <term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
 694     <listitem>
 695      <para>
 696       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode">Unicode
 697       Transformation Format</ulink>
 698      </para>
 699     </listitem>
 700    </varlistentry>
 701
 702    <varlistentry>
 703     <term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
 704     <listitem>
 705      <para>
 706       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8">Eight-Bit Unicode
 707       Transformation Format</ulink>
 708      </para>
 709     </listitem>
 710    </varlistentry>
 711
 712    <varlistentry>
 713     <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
 714     <listitem>
 715      <para>
 716       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid">Universally Unique
 717       Identifier</ulink>
 718      </para>
 719     </listitem>
 720    </varlistentry>
 721
 722    <varlistentry>
 723     <term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
 724     <listitem>
 725      <para>
 726       <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
 727      </para>
 728     </listitem>
 729    </varlistentry>
 730
 731    <varlistentry>
 732     <term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
 733     <listitem>
 734      <para>
 735       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
 736      </para>
 737     </listitem>
 738    </varlistentry>
 739
 740    <varlistentry>
 741     <term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
 742     <listitem>
 743      <para>
 744       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup
 745       Language</ulink>
 746      </para>
 747     </listitem>
 748    </varlistentry>
 749
 750   </variablelist>
 751  </para>
 752
 753 </appendix>