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<appendix id="acronyms">
 <title>Acronyms</title>

 <para>
  This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
  documentation and in discussions about <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.

  <variablelist>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>AIO</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="glossary-aio">Asynchronous <acronym>I/O</acronym></link>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>ACL</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access-control_list">Access Control List</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>AM</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="glossary-am">Access Method</link>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>ANSI</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute">
      American National Standards Institute</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>API</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">Application Programming Interface</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>ASCII</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII">American Standard
      Code for Information Interchange</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>BKI</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="bki">Backend Interface</link>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CA</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority">Certificate Authority</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CIDR</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink
      url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing">Classless
      Inter-Domain Routing</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CPAN</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://www.cpan.org/">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CRL</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink
      url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list">Certificate
      Revocation List</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CSV</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink
      url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">Comma
      Separated Values</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CTE</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="queries-with">Common Table Expression</link>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>CVE</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>DBA</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink
      url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator">Database
      Administrator</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>DBI</acronym></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <ulink url="https://dbi.perl.org/">Database Interface (Perl)</ulink>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term><acronym>DBMS</acronym></term>