- 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
      
- CTE
-       Common Table Expression
      
- CVE
-       Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
      
- 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
      
- Git
-       Git
      
- 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 Organization for
      Standardization
      
- 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
-       Procedural 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