- ANSI
American National Standards Institute
- API
Application Programming Interface
- ASCII
American Standard
Code for Information Interchange
- BKI
Backend Interface
- CA
Certificate Authority
- CIDR
Classless
Inter-Domain Routing
- CPAN
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
- CRL
Certificate
Revocation List
- CSV
Comma
Separated Values
- CTE
Common Table Expression
- CVE
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- DBA
Database
Administrator
- DBI
Database Interface (Perl)
- DBMS
Database Management
System
- DDL
Data
Definition Language, SQL commands such as CREATE
TABLE, ALTER USER
- DML
Data
Manipulation Language, SQL commands such as INSERT,
UPDATE, DELETE
- DST
Daylight
Saving Time
- ECPG
Embedded C for PostgreSQL
- ESQL
Embedded
SQL
- FAQ
Frequently Asked
Questions
- FSM
Free Space Map
- GEQO
Genetic Query Optimizer
- GIN
Generalized Inverted Index
- GiST
Generalized Search Tree
- Git
Git
- GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
- GSSAPI
Generic
Security Services Application Programming Interface
- GUC
Grand Unified Configuration,
the PostgreSQL subsystem that handles server configuration
- HBA
Host-Based Authentication
- HOT
Heap-Only
Tuples
- IEC
International
Electrotechnical Commission
- IEEE
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
- IPC
Inter-Process
Communication
- ISO
International Organization for
Standardization
- ISSN
International Standard
Serial Number
- JDBC
Java
Database Connectivity
- LDAP
Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol
- LSN
Log Sequence Number, see pg_lsn
and WAL Internals.
- MSVC
Microsoft
Visual C
- MVCC
Multi-Version Concurrency Control
- NLS
National
Language Support
- ODBC
Open
Database Connectivity
- OID
Object Identifier
- OLAP
Online Analytical
Processing
- OLTP
Online Transaction
Processing
- ORDBMS
Object-Relational
Database Management System
- PAM
Pluggable
Authentication Modules
- PGSQL
PostgreSQL
- PGXS
PostgreSQL Extension System
- PID
Process Identifier
- PITR
Point-In-Time
Recovery (Continuous Archiving)
- PL
Procedural Languages (server-side)
- POSIX
Portable Operating
System Interface
- RDBMS
Relational
Database Management System
- RFC
Request For
Comments
- SGML
Standard Generalized
Markup Language
- SPI
Server Programming Interface
- SP-GiST
Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
- SQL
Structured Query Language
- SRF
Set-Returning Function
- SSH
Secure
Shell
- SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
- SSPI
Security
Support Provider Interface
- SYSV
Unix System V
- TCP/IP
Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)
- TID
Tuple Identifier
- TLS
Transport Layer Security
- TOAST
The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
- TPC
Transaction Processing
Performance Council
- URL
Uniform Resource
Locator
- UTC
Coordinated
Universal Time
- UTF
Unicode Transformation
Format
- UTF8
Eight-Bit Unicode
Transformation Format
- UUID
Universally Unique Identifier
- WAL
Write-Ahead Log
- XID
Transaction Identifier
- XML
Extensible Markup
Language