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<appendix id="acronyms">

<title>Acronyms</title>

<para>

This is a list of acronyms used in the documentation.

This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <productname>PostgreSQL</>

documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</>.

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<varlistentry>

<term><acronym>DCL</acronym></term>

<listitem>

<para>

<ulink

url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Control_Language">Data

Control Language</ulink>, e.g. <command>GRANT</>,

<command>REVOKE</>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><acronym>DDL</acronym></term>

<listitem>

<para>

<ulink

url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language">Data

Definition Language</ulink>,e.g.<command>CREATE TABLE</>,

<command>ALTER USER</>

Definition Language</ulink>,SQL commands such as<command>CREATE

TABLE</>,<command>ALTER USER</>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<para>

<ulink

url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language">Data

Manipulation Language</ulink>, e.g INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.

Manipulation Language</ulink>, SQL commands such as <command>INSERT</>,

<command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<term><acronym>GUC</acronym></term>

<listitem>

<para>

<link linkend="config-setting">Global User Configuration</link>,

e.g. <filename>postgresql.conf</>

<link linkend="config-setting">Grand Unified Configuration</link>,

the <productname>PostgreSQL</> subsystem that handles server configuration

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<term><acronym>HBA</acronym></term>

<listitem>

<para>

<link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>,

e.g. <filename>pg_hba.conf</>

<link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">Host-Based Authentication</link>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<listitem>

<para>

<ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/">Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers</ulink>, e.g. IEEE Standard for Binary

Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)

Electronics Engineers</ulink>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<listitem>

<para>

<ulink url="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm">International Standards

Organization</ulink>, e.g. ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL99 standard)

Organization</ulink>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<listitem>

<para>

<link linkend="continuous-archiving">Point-In-Time

Recovery</link>, i.e.Continuous Archiving

Recovery</link> (Continuous Archiving)

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<term><acronym>SRF</acronym></term>

<listitem>

<para>

<link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-ReturningFunctions</link>

<link linkend="xfunc-c-return-set">Set-ReturningFunction</link>

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>