- 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
- JIT
Just-in-Time compilation
- JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
- 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
- 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