- 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
- JIT
-
Just-in-Time compilation
- JSON
-
JavaScript Object Notation
- LDAP
-
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LSN
-
Log Sequence Number, see pg_lsn and WAL Internals.
- 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
- SP-GiST
-
Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
- 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
- TLS
-
Transport Layer Security
- 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