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@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml,v 1.2 2007/11/01 17:16:36 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml -->
 
 <appendix id="acronyms">
  <title>Acronyms</title>
 
  <para>
-  This is a list of acronyms used in the documentation.
+  This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <productname>PostgreSQL</>
+  documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
 
   <variablelist>
 
@@ -98,21 +99,19 @@
    </varlistentry>
 
    <varlistentry>
-    <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
+    <term><acronym>CTE</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
+      <link linkend="queries-with">Common Table Expression</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
    <varlistentry>
-    <term><acronym>CVS</acronym></term>
+    <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <ulink
-      url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">Concurrent
-      Versions System</ulink>
+      <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -147,26 +146,14 @@
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term><acronym>DCL</acronym></term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      <ulink
-      url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Control_Language">Data
-      Control Language</ulink>, e.g. <command>GRANT</>,
-      <command>REVOKE</>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-
    <varlistentry>
     <term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <ulink
       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data
-      Definition Language</ulink>, e.g. <command>CREATE TABLE</>,
-      <command>ALTER USER</>
+      Definition Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>CREATE
+      TABLE</>, <command>ALTER USER</>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -177,7 +164,8 @@
      <para>
       <ulink
       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
-      Manipulation Language</ulink>, e.g INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
+      Manipulation Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>INSERT</>,
+      <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -226,7 +214,7 @@
     <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="runtime-config-resource-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
+      <link linkend="storage-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -258,6 +246,16 @@
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><acronym>Git</acronym></term>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <ulink
+      url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)">Git</ulink>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+
    <varlistentry>
     <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
@@ -282,8 +280,8 @@
     <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="config-setting">Global User Configuration</link>,
-      e.g. <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+      <link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,
+      the <productname>PostgreSQL</> subsystem that handles server configuration
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -292,8 +290,7 @@
     <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>,
-      e.g. <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
+      <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -303,7 +300,7 @@
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <ulink
-      url="http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT">Heap-Only
+      url="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT;hb=HEAD">Heap-Only
       Tuples</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
@@ -325,8 +322,7 @@
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
-      Electronics Engineers</ulink>, e.g. IEEE Standard for Binary
-      Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)
+      Electronics Engineers</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -346,8 +342,8 @@
     <term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Standards
-      Organization</ulink>, e.g. ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL99 standard)
+      <ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Organization for
+      Standardization</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -384,6 +380,16 @@
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><acronym>LSN</acronym></term>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Log Sequence Number, see <link linkend="datatype-pg-lsn"><type>pg_lsn</></link>
+      and <link linkend="wal-internals">WAL Internals</link>.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+
    <varlistentry>
     <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
@@ -489,7 +495,7 @@
     <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
+      <link linkend="extend-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -508,7 +514,7 @@
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
-      Recovery</link>, i.e. Continuous Archiving
+      Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -517,7 +523,7 @@
     <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="server-programming">Programming Languages (server-side)</link>
+      <link linkend="server-programming">Procedural Languages (server-side)</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -573,6 +579,15 @@
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><acronym>SP-GiST</acronym></term>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <link linkend="SPGiST">Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree</link>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+
    <varlistentry>
     <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
@@ -586,7 +601,7 @@
     <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Functions</link>
+      <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
@@ -614,7 +629,7 @@
     <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <ulink url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493.aspx">Security
+      <ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx">Security
       Support Provider Interface</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
@@ -713,8 +728,7 @@
     <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid">Universally Unique
-      Identifier</ulink>
+      <link linkend="datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier</link>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>