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+<appendix id="acronymns">
+ <title>Acronyms</title>
+
+ <para>
+ This is a list of acronymns used in the documentation.
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
+ American National Standards Institute</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii">American Standard
+ Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
+ Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
+ Revocation List</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
+ Separated Values</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>CVS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">Concurrent
+ Versions System</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
+ Administrator</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms">Database Management
+ System</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </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</>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
+ Manipulation Language</ulink>, e.g INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
+ Saving Time</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
+ SQL</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
+ Questions</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="runtime-config-resource-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="GIN">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="GiST">Generalized Search Tree</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
+ Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="config-setting">Global User Configuration</link>,
+ e.g. <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>,
+ e.g. <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT">Heap-Only
+ Tuples</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
+ Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
+ <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)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
+ Communication</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <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)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn">International Standard
+ Serial Number</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
+ Database Connectivity</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
+ Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"><productname>Microsoft
+ Visual C</productname></ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
+ Language Support</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
+ Database Connectivity</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap">Online Analytical
+ Processing</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP">Online Transaction
+ Processing</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS">Object-Relational
+ Database Management System</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules">Pluggable
+ Authentication Modules</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</></link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
+ Recovery</link>, i.e. Continuous Archiving
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="server-programming">Programming Languages (server-side)</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
+ System Interface</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system">Relational
+ Database Management System</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
+ Comments</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">Standard Generalized
+ Markup Language</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Functions</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
+ Shell</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493.aspx">Security
+ Support Provider Interface</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
+ Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
+ Performance Council</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
+ Locator</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
+ Universal Time</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode">Unicode
+ Transformation Format</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8">Eight-Bit Unicode
+ Transformation Format</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid">Universally Unique
+ Identifier</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup
+ Language</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+
+</appendix>
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