Acronyms

American National Standards Institute

Application Programming Interface

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Backend Interface

Certificate Authority

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Certificate Revocation List

Comma Separated Values

Common Table Expression

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Database Administrator

Database Interface (Perl)

Database Management System

Data Definition Language, SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE, ALTER USER

Data Manipulation Language, SQL commands such as INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE

Daylight Saving Time

Embedded C for PostgreSQL

Embedded SQL

Frequently Asked Questions

Free Space Map

Genetic Query Optimizer

Generalized Inverted Index

Generalized Search Tree

Git

Greenwich Mean Time

Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface

Grand Unified Configuration, the PostgreSQL subsystem that handles server configuration

Host-Based Authentication

Heap-Only Tuples

International Electrotechnical Commission

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Inter-Process Communication

International Organization for Standardization

International Standard Serial Number

Java Database Connectivity

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Microsoft Visual C

Multi-Version Concurrency Control

National Language Support

Open Database Connectivity

Object Identifier

Online Analytical Processing

Online Transaction Processing

Object-Relational Database Management System

Pluggable Authentication Modules

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Extension System

Process Identifier

Point-In-Time Recovery (Continuous Archiving)

Procedural Languages (server-side)

Portable Operating System Interface

Relational Database Management System

Request For Comments

Standard Generalized Markup Language

Server Programming Interface

Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree

Structured Query Language

Set-Returning Function

Secure Shell

Secure Sockets Layer

Security Support Provider Interface

Unix System V

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)

Tuple Identifier

The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique

Transaction Processing Performance Council

Uniform Resource Locator

Coordinated Universal Time

Unicode Transformation Format

Eight-Bit Unicode Transformation Format

Universally Unique Identifier

Write-Ahead Log

Transaction Identifier

Extensible Markup Language