doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml

   1 <!-- $PostgreSQL$ -->
   2
   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>CVS</acronym></term>
 112     <listitem>
 113      <para>
 114       <ulink
 115       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">Concurrent
 116       Versions System</ulink>
 117      </para>
 118     </listitem>
 119    </varlistentry>
 120
 121    <varlistentry>
 122     <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
 123     <listitem>
 124      <para>
 125       <ulink
 126       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
 127       Administrator</ulink>
 128      </para>
 129     </listitem>
 130    </varlistentry>
 131
 132    <varlistentry>
 133     <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
 134     <listitem>
 135      <para>
 136       <ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
 137      </para>
 138     </listitem>
 139    </varlistentry>
 140
 141    <varlistentry>
 142     <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>
 143     <listitem>
 144      <para>
 145       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms">Database Management
 146       System</ulink>
 147      </para>
 148     </listitem>
 149    </varlistentry>
 150
 151    <varlistentry>
 152     <term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>
 153     <listitem>
 154      <para>
 155       <ulink
 156       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data
 157       Definition Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>CREATE
 158       TABLE</>, <command>ALTER USER</>
 159      </para>
 160     </listitem>
 161    </varlistentry>
 162
 163    <varlistentry>
 164     <term><acronym>DML</acronym></term>
 165     <listitem>
 166      <para>
 167       <ulink
 168       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data
 169       Manipulation Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>INSERT</>,
 170       <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>
 171      </para>
 172     </listitem>
 173    </varlistentry>
 174
 175    <varlistentry>
 176     <term><acronym>DST</acronym></term>
 177     <listitem>
 178      <para>
 179       <ulink
 180       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time">Daylight
 181       Saving Time</ulink>
 182      </para>
 183     </listitem>
 184    </varlistentry>
 185
 186    <varlistentry>
 187     <term><acronym>ECPG</acronym></term>
 188     <listitem>
 189      <para>
 190       <link linkend="ecpg">Embedded C for PostgreSQL</link>
 191      </para>
 192     </listitem>
 193    </varlistentry>
 194
 195    <varlistentry>
 196     <term><acronym>ESQL</acronym></term>
 197     <listitem>
 198      <para>
 199       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL">Embedded
 200       SQL</ulink>
 201      </para>
 202     </listitem>
 203    </varlistentry>
 204
 205    <varlistentry>
 206     <term><acronym>FAQ</acronym></term>
 207     <listitem>
 208      <para>
 209       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked
 210       Questions</ulink>
 211      </para>
 212     </listitem>
 213    </varlistentry>
 214
 215    <varlistentry>
 216     <term><acronym>FSM</acronym></term>
 217     <listitem>
 218      <para>
 219       <link linkend="storage-fsm">Free Space Map</link>
 220      </para>
 221     </listitem>
 222    </varlistentry>
 223
 224    <varlistentry>
 225     <term><acronym>GEQO</acronym></term>
 226     <listitem>
 227      <para>
 228       <link linkend="geqo">Genetic Query Optimizer</link>
 229      </para>
 230     </listitem>
 231    </varlistentry>
 232
 233    <varlistentry>
 234     <term><acronym>GIN</acronym></term>
 235     <listitem>
 236      <para>
 237       <link linkend="GIN">Generalized Inverted Index</link>
 238      </para>
 239     </listitem>
 240    </varlistentry>
 241
 242    <varlistentry>
 243     <term><acronym>GiST</acronym></term>
 244     <listitem>
 245      <para>
 246       <link linkend="GiST">Generalized Search Tree</link>
 247      </para>
 248     </listitem>
 249    </varlistentry>
 250
 251    <varlistentry>
 252     <term><acronym>GMT</acronym></term>
 253     <listitem>
 254      <para>
 255       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT">Greenwich Mean Time</ulink>
 256      </para>
 257     </listitem>
 258    </varlistentry>
 259
 260    <varlistentry>
 261     <term><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></term>
 262     <listitem>
 263      <para>
 264       <ulink
 265       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface">Generic
 266       Security Services Application Programming Interface</ulink>
 267      </para>
 268     </listitem>
 269    </varlistentry>
 270
 271    <varlistentry>
 272     <term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>
 273     <listitem>
 274      <para>
 275       <link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,
 276       the <productname>PostgreSQL</> subsystem that handles server configuration
 277      </para>
 278     </listitem>
 279    </varlistentry>
 280
 281    <varlistentry>
 282     <term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>
 283     <listitem>
 284      <para>
 285       <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>
 286      </para>
 287     </listitem>
 288    </varlistentry>
 289
 290    <varlistentry>
 291     <term><acronym>HOT</acronym></term>
 292     <listitem>
 293      <para>
 294       <ulink
 295       url="http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT">Heap-Only
 296       Tuples</ulink>
 297      </para>
 298     </listitem>
 299    </varlistentry>
 300
 301    <varlistentry>
 302     <term><acronym>IEC</acronym></term>
 303     <listitem>
 304      <para>
 305       <ulink
 306       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission">International
 307       Electrotechnical Commission</ulink>
 308      </para>
 309     </listitem>
 310    </varlistentry>
 311
 312    <varlistentry>
 313     <term><acronym>IEEE</acronym></term>
 314     <listitem>
 315      <para>
 316       <ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and
 317       Electronics Engineers</ulink>
 318      </para>
 319     </listitem>
 320    </varlistentry>
 321
 322    <varlistentry>
 323     <term><acronym>IPC</acronym></term>
 324     <listitem>
 325      <para>
 326       <ulink
 327       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication">Inter-Process
 328       Communication</ulink>
 329      </para>
 330     </listitem>
 331    </varlistentry>
 332
 333    <varlistentry>
 334     <term><acronym>ISO</acronym></term>
 335     <listitem>
 336      <para>
 337       <ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Standards
 338       Organization</ulink>
 339      </para>
 340     </listitem>
 341    </varlistentry>
 342
 343    <varlistentry>
 344     <term><acronym>ISSN</acronym></term>
 345     <listitem>
 346      <para>
 347       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn">International Standard
 348       Serial Number</ulink>
 349      </para>
 350     </listitem>
 351    </varlistentry>
 352
 353    <varlistentry>
 354     <term><acronym>JDBC</acronym></term>
 355     <listitem>
 356      <para>
 357       <ulink
 358       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity">Java
 359       Database Connectivity</ulink>
 360      </para>
 361     </listitem>
 362    </varlistentry>
 363
 364    <varlistentry>
 365     <term><acronym>LDAP</acronym></term>
 366     <listitem>
 367      <para>
 368       <ulink
 369       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight
 370       Directory Access Protocol</ulink>
 371      </para>
 372     </listitem>
 373    </varlistentry>
 374
 375    <varlistentry>
 376     <term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
 377     <listitem>
 378      <para>
 379       <ulink
 380       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"><productname>Microsoft
 381       Visual C</productname></ulink>
 382      </para>
 383     </listitem>
 384    </varlistentry>
 385
 386    <varlistentry>
 387     <term><acronym>MVCC</acronym></term>
 388     <listitem>
 389      <para>
 390       <link linkend="mvcc">Multi-Version Concurrency Control</link>
 391      </para>
 392     </listitem>
 393    </varlistentry>
 394
 395    <varlistentry>
 396     <term><acronym>NLS</acronym></term>
 397     <listitem>
 398      <para>
 399       <ulink
 400       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization">National
 401       Language Support</ulink>
 402      </para>
 403     </listitem>
 404    </varlistentry>
 405
 406    <varlistentry>
 407     <term><acronym>ODBC</acronym></term>
 408     <listitem>
 409      <para>
 410       <ulink
 411       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity">Open
 412       Database Connectivity</ulink>
 413      </para>
 414     </listitem>
 415    </varlistentry>
 416
 417    <varlistentry>
 418     <term><acronym>OID</acronym></term>
 419     <listitem>
 420      <para>
 421       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Object Identifier</link>
 422      </para>
 423     </listitem>
 424    </varlistentry>
 425
 426    <varlistentry>
 427     <term><acronym>OLAP</acronym></term>
 428     <listitem>
 429      <para>
 430       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap">Online Analytical
 431       Processing</ulink>
 432      </para>
 433     </listitem>
 434    </varlistentry>
 435
 436    <varlistentry>
 437     <term><acronym>OLTP</acronym></term>
 438     <listitem>
 439      <para>
 440       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP">Online Transaction
 441       Processing</ulink>
 442      </para>
 443     </listitem>
 444    </varlistentry>
 445
 446    <varlistentry>
 447     <term><acronym>ORDBMS</acronym></term>
 448     <listitem>
 449      <para>
 450       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS">Object-Relational
 451       Database Management System</ulink>
 452      </para>
 453     </listitem>
 454    </varlistentry>
 455
 456    <varlistentry>
 457     <term><acronym>PAM</acronym></term>
 458     <listitem>
 459      <para>
 460       <ulink
 461       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules">Pluggable
 462       Authentication Modules</ulink>
 463      </para>
 464     </listitem>
 465    </varlistentry>
 466
 467    <varlistentry>
 468     <term><acronym>PGSQL</acronym></term>
 469     <listitem>
 470      <para>
 471       <link linkend="postgres"><productname>PostgreSQL</></link>
 472      </para>
 473     </listitem>
 474    </varlistentry>
 475
 476    <varlistentry>
 477     <term><acronym>PGXS</acronym></term>
 478     <listitem>
 479      <para>
 480       <link linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><productname>PostgreSQL</> Extension System</link>
 481      </para>
 482     </listitem>
 483    </varlistentry>
 484
 485    <varlistentry>
 486     <term><acronym>PID</acronym></term>
 487     <listitem>
 488      <para>
 489       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier">Process Identifier</ulink>
 490      </para>
 491     </listitem>
 492    </varlistentry>
 493
 494    <varlistentry>
 495     <term><acronym>PITR</acronym></term>
 496     <listitem>
 497      <para>
 498       <link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time
 499       Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)
 500      </para>
 501     </listitem>
 502    </varlistentry>
 503
 504    <varlistentry>
 505     <term><acronym>PL</acronym></term>
 506     <listitem>
 507      <para>
 508       <link linkend="server-programming">Programming Languages (server-side)</link>
 509      </para>
 510     </listitem>
 511    </varlistentry>
 512
 513    <varlistentry>
 514     <term><acronym>POSIX</acronym></term>
 515     <listitem>
 516      <para>
 517       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX">Portable Operating
 518       System Interface</ulink>
 519      </para>
 520     </listitem>
 521    </varlistentry>
 522
 523    <varlistentry>
 524     <term><acronym>RDBMS</acronym></term>
 525     <listitem>
 526      <para>
 527       <ulink
 528       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system">Relational
 529       Database Management System</ulink>
 530      </para>
 531     </listitem>
 532    </varlistentry>
 533
 534    <varlistentry>
 535     <term><acronym>RFC</acronym></term>
 536     <listitem>
 537      <para>
 538       <ulink
 539       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">Request For
 540       Comments</ulink>
 541      </para>
 542     </listitem>
 543    </varlistentry>
 544
 545    <varlistentry>
 546     <term><acronym>SGML</acronym></term>
 547     <listitem>
 548      <para>
 549       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">Standard Generalized
 550       Markup Language</ulink>
 551      </para>
 552     </listitem>
 553    </varlistentry>
 554
 555    <varlistentry>
 556     <term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
 557     <listitem>
 558      <para>
 559       <link linkend="spi">Server Programming Interface</link>
 560      </para>
 561     </listitem>
 562    </varlistentry>
 563
 564    <varlistentry>
 565     <term><acronym>SQL</acronym></term>
 566     <listitem>
 567      <para>
 568       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">Structured Query Language</ulink>
 569      </para>
 570     </listitem>
 571    </varlistentry>
 572
 573    <varlistentry>
 574     <term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>
 575     <listitem>
 576      <para>
 577       <link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-Returning Function</link>
 578      </para>
 579     </listitem>
 580    </varlistentry>
 581
 582    <varlistentry>
 583     <term><acronym>SSH</acronym></term>
 584     <listitem>
 585      <para>
 586       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">Secure
 587       Shell</ulink>
 588      </para>
 589     </listitem>
 590    </varlistentry>
 591
 592    <varlistentry>
 593     <term><acronym>SSL</acronym></term>
 594     <listitem>
 595      <para>
 596       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets Layer</ulink>
 597      </para>
 598     </listitem>
 599    </varlistentry>
 600
 601    <varlistentry>
 602     <term><acronym>SSPI</acronym></term>
 603     <listitem>
 604      <para>
 605       <ulink url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493.aspx">Security
 606       Support Provider Interface</ulink>
 607      </para>
 608     </listitem>
 609    </varlistentry>
 610
 611    <varlistentry>
 612     <term><acronym>SYSV</acronym></term>
 613     <listitem>
 614      <para>
 615       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V">Unix System V</ulink>
 616      </para>
 617     </listitem>
 618    </varlistentry>
 619
 620    <varlistentry>
 621     <term><acronym>TCP/IP</acronym></term>
 622     <listitem>
 623      <para>
 624       <ulink
 625       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">Transmission
 626       Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</ulink>
 627      </para>
 628     </listitem>
 629    </varlistentry>
 630
 631    <varlistentry>
 632     <term><acronym>TID</acronym></term>
 633     <listitem>
 634      <para>
 635       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Tuple Identifier</link>
 636      </para>
 637     </listitem>
 638    </varlistentry>
 639
 640    <varlistentry>
 641     <term><acronym>TOAST</acronym></term>
 642     <listitem>
 643      <para>
 644       <link linkend="storage-toast">The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</link>
 645      </para>
 646     </listitem>
 647    </varlistentry>
 648
 649    <varlistentry>
 650     <term><acronym>TPC</acronym></term>
 651     <listitem>
 652      <para>
 653       <ulink url="http://www.tpc.org/">Transaction Processing
 654       Performance Council</ulink>
 655      </para>
 656     </listitem>
 657    </varlistentry>
 658
 659    <varlistentry>
 660     <term><acronym>URL</acronym></term>
 661     <listitem>
 662      <para>
 663       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Uniform Resource
 664       Locator</ulink>
 665      </para>
 666     </listitem>
 667    </varlistentry>
 668
 669    <varlistentry>
 670     <term><acronym>UTC</acronym></term>
 671     <listitem>
 672      <para>
 673       <ulink
 674       url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated
 675       Universal Time</ulink>
 676      </para>
 677     </listitem>
 678    </varlistentry>
 679
 680    <varlistentry>
 681     <term><acronym>UTF</acronym></term>
 682     <listitem>
 683      <para>
 684       <ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Transformation
 685       Format</ulink>
 686      </para>
 687     </listitem>
 688    </varlistentry>
 689
 690    <varlistentry>
 691     <term><acronym>UTF8</acronym></term>
 692     <listitem>
 693      <para>
 694       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8">Eight-Bit Unicode
 695       Transformation Format</ulink>
 696      </para>
 697     </listitem>
 698    </varlistentry>
 699
 700    <varlistentry>
 701     <term><acronym>UUID</acronym></term>
 702     <listitem>
 703      <para>
 704       <link linkend="datatype-uuid">Universally Unique Identifier</link>
 705      </para>
 706     </listitem>
 707    </varlistentry>
 708
 709    <varlistentry>
 710     <term><acronym>WAL</acronym></term>
 711     <listitem>
 712      <para>
 713       <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link>
 714      </para>
 715     </listitem>
 716    </varlistentry>
 717
 718    <varlistentry>
 719     <term><acronym>XID</acronym></term>
 720     <listitem>
 721      <para>
 722       <link linkend="datatype-oid">Transaction Identifier</link>
 723      </para>
 724     </listitem>
 725    </varlistentry>
 726
 727    <varlistentry>
 728     <term><acronym>XML</acronym></term>
 729     <listitem>
 730      <para>
 731       <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">Extensible Markup
 732       Language</ulink>
 733      </para>
 734     </listitem>
 735    </varlistentry>
 736
 737   </variablelist>
 738  </para>
 739
 740 </appendix>