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Abbreviations and acronyms
A list of abbreviations and acronyms associated with PostgreSQL
- BGW - BackGround Worker
- CTE - Common Table Expression
- CTID - Content (?) Tuple IDentifier
- FDW - Foreign Data Wrapper
- FSM - Free Space Map
- GEQO - GEnetic Query Optimizer
- GIN - Generalized Inverted Index
- GiST - Generalized Search Tree
- GUC - Grand Unified Configuration
- HBA - Host-Based Access - see pg_hba.conf
- MVCC - Multi-Version Concurrency Control
- OID - Object IDentifier
- PGXS - PostGreSQL EXtenSion (?)
- PPA - phpPgAdmin
- PITR - Point In Time Recovery
- RLS - Row Level Security
- relopt - relation option
- smgr - storage manager
- WAL - Write-Ahead Log / Write-Ahead Logging