AcronymDescriptionURLID URL
RFCRequest For Comment $1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc$1.txt
RDBMSRelational Database Management System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system
SQL Structured Query Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
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
CVE
 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVS
 Concurrent Versions System
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
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 Standards Organization
ISSN
 International Standard Serial Number
JDBC
 Java Database Connectivity
LDAP
 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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
Programming 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
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