4 This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the PostgreSQL
5 documentation and in discussions about PostgreSQL.
17 American National Standards Institute
20 Application Programming Interface
23 American Standard Code for Information Interchange
32 Classless Inter-Domain Routing
35 Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
38 Certificate Revocation List
41 Comma Separated Values
44 Common Table Expression
47 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
50 Database Administrator
53 Database Interface (Perl)
56 Database Management System
59 Data Definition Language, SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE,
63 Data Manipulation Language, SQL commands such as INSERT, UPDATE,
70 Embedded C for PostgreSQL
76 Frequently Asked Questions
82 Genetic Query Optimizer
85 Generalized Inverted Index
88 Generalized Search Tree
97 Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
100 Grand Unified Configuration, the PostgreSQL subsystem that
101 handles server configuration
104 Host-Based Authentication
110 International Electrotechnical Commission
113 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
116 Inter-Process Communication
122 International Organization for Standardization
125 International Standard Serial Number
128 Java Database Connectivity
131 Just-in-Time compilation
134 JavaScript Object Notation
137 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
143 Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with
144 some Most Common Value
147 Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within
148 a particular table column
151 Man-in-the-middle attack
157 Multi-Version Concurrency Control
160 National Language Support
163 Open Database Connectivity
169 Online Analytical Processing
172 Online Transaction Processing
175 Object-Relational Database Management System
178 Pluggable Authentication Modules
184 PostgreSQL Extension System
190 Point-In-Time Recovery (Continuous Archiving)
193 Procedural Languages (server-side)
196 Portable Operating System Interface
199 Relational Database Management System
205 Standard Generalized Markup Language
208 Server Name Indication, RFC 6066
211 Server Programming Interface
214 Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
217 Structured Query Language
220 Set-Returning Function
229 Security Support Provider Interface
235 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)
241 Transport Layer Security
244 The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
247 Transaction Processing Performance Council
250 Uniform Resource Locator
253 Coordinated Universal Time
256 Unicode Transformation Format
259 Eight-Bit Unicode Transformation Format
262 Universally Unique Identifier
268 Transaction Identifier
271 Extensible Markup Language