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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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API
-
Application Programming Interface
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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BKI
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Backend Interface
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CA
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Certificate Authority
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CIDR
-
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
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CPAN
-
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
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CRL
-
Certificate Revocation List
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CSV
-
Comma Separated Values
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CTE
-
Common Table Expression
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CVE
-
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
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DBA
-
Database Administrator
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DBI
-
Database Interface (Perl)
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DBMS
-
Database Management System
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DDL
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Data Definition Language , SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE
, ALTER USER
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DML
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Data Manipulation Language , SQL commands such as INSERT
, UPDATE
, DELETE
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DST
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Daylight Saving Time
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ECPG
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Embedded C for PostgreSQL
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ESQL
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Embedded SQL
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FAQ
-
Frequently Asked Questions
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FSM
-
Free Space Map
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GEQO
-
Genetic Query Optimizer
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GIN
-
Generalized Inverted Index
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GiST
-
Generalized Search Tree
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Git
-
Git
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GMT
-
Greenwich Mean Time
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GSSAPI
-
Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
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GUC
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Grand Unified Configuration, the PostgreSQL subsystem that handles server configuration
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HBA
-
Host-Based Authentication
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HOT
-
Heap-Only Tuples
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IEC
-
International Electrotechnical Commission
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IEEE
-
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IPC
-
Inter-Process Communication
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ISO
-
International Organization for Standardization
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ISSN
-
International Standard Serial Number
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JDBC
-
Java Database Connectivity
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JIT
-
Just-in-Time compilation
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JSON
-
JavaScript Object Notation
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LDAP
-
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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LSN
-
Log Sequence Number, see pg_lsn
and WAL Internals.
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MSVC
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Microsoft Visual C
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MVCC
-
Multi-Version Concurrency Control
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NLS
-
National Language Support
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ODBC
-
Open Database Connectivity
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OID
-
Object Identifier
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OLAP
-
Online Analytical Processing
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OLTP
-
Online Transaction Processing
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ORDBMS
-
Object-Relational Database Management System
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PAM
-
Pluggable Authentication Modules
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PGSQL
-
PostgreSQL
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PGXS
-
PostgreSQL Extension System
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PID
-
Process Identifier
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PITR
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Point-In-Time Recovery (Continuous Archiving)
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PL
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Procedural Languages (server-side)
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POSIX
-
Portable Operating System Interface
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RDBMS
-
Relational Database Management System
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RFC
-
Request For Comments
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SGML
-
Standard Generalized Markup Language
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SPI
-
Server Programming Interface
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SP-GiST
-
Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
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SQL
-
Structured Query Language
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SRF
-
Set-Returning Function
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SSH
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Secure Shell
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SSL
-
Secure Sockets Layer
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SSPI
-
Security Support Provider Interface
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SYSV
-
Unix System V
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TCP/IP
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)
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TID
-
Tuple Identifier
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TOAST
-
The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
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TPC
-
Transaction Processing Performance Council
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URL
-
Uniform Resource Locator
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UTC
-
Coordinated Universal Time
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UTF
-
Unicode Transformation Format
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UTF8
-
Eight-Bit Unicode Transformation Format
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UUID
-
Universally Unique Identifier
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WAL
-
Write-Ahead Log
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XID
-
Transaction Identifier
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XML
-
Extensible Markup Language