- 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命令比如CREATE
TABLE, ALTER USER 
- DML
-  Data
Manipulation Language, SQL命令比如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,
处理服务器配置的PostgreSQL子系统。 
- 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 (连续归档)
 
- 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
 
- 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