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References

Alphabetized lists of frequently used phrases and links to external documentation.

Acronyms​

Officially used, short-form versions for longer phrases, company and product names, etc.

  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • BRIN (Block Range Index)
  • CDN (Content Delivery Network)
  • CTE (Common Table Expression)
  • CV (Coefficient of Variation)
  • DBaaS (Database as a Service)
  • GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
  • GIN (Generalized Inverted Index)
  • GUC (Grand Unified Configuration)
  • HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
  • I/O (Input/Output)
  • IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second)
  • JIT (Just-in-Time Compilation)
  • OLTP (Online Transaction Processing)
  • PL/pgSQL (PostgreSQL Procedural Language)
  • RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
  • RTT (Round-Trip Time)
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)
  • SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
  • TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique)
  • TPC-B (Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark B)
  • TPM (Transactions Per Minute)
  • TPROC-C (HammerDB's transaction processing workload)
  • VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
  • WAL (Write-Ahead Logging)
  • YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark)

Linked Definitions​

Words, phrases, and expanded acronyms and abbreviations with links to explain their meaning or point to their documentation.

PostgreSQL Documentation​

Definitions and Additional Information​