Appendix M. Acronyms
This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the Postgres Pro documentation and in discussions about Postgres Pro.
- ANSI
- API
- ASCII
- BKI
Backend Interface
- CA
- CIDR
- CPAN
- CRL
- CSV
- CTE
- CVE
- DBA
- DBI
- DBMS
- DDL
Data Definition Language, SQL commands such as
CREATE TABLE
,ALTER USER
- DML
Data Manipulation Language, SQL commands such as
INSERT
,UPDATE
,DELETE
- DST
- ECPG
- ESQL
- FAQ
- FSM
- GEQO
- GIN
- GiST
- Git
- GMT
- GSSAPI
- GUC
Grand Unified Configuration, the Postgres Pro subsystem that handles server configuration
- HBA
- HOT
- IEC
- IEEE
- IPC
- ISO
- ISSN
- JDBC
- JIT
- JSON
- LDAP
- LSN
- MCF
Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with some Most Common Value
- MCV
Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within a particular table column
- MITM
- MSVC
- MVCC
- NLS
- ODBC
- OID
- OLAP
- OLTP
- ORDBMS
- PAM
- PGSQL
- PGXS
- PID
- PITR
Point-In-Time Recovery (Continuous Archiving)
- PL
- POSIX
- RDBMS
- RFC
- SGML
- SNI
- SPI
- SP-GiST
- SQL
- SRF
- SSH
- SSL
- SSPI
- SYSV
- TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)
- TID
- TLS
- TOAST
- TPC
- URL
- UTC
- UTF
- UTF8
- UUID
- WAL
- XID
- XML