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