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**Adaptive query optimization**: dynamic query plan adjustment based on actual execution statistics and data distribution patterns, improving performance over time.

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**Agent**: a system that uses prompts, and other logic to act autonomously or semi-autonomously.

**AI agent**: See [Agent](#agent).

**Aggregate (Continuous Aggregate)**: a materialized, precomputed summary of query results over time-series data, providing faster access to analytics.

**Alerting**: the process of automatically notifying administrators when predefined conditions or thresholds are met in system monitoring.
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**Decompress**: the process of restoring compressed data to its original, uncompressed state.

**Developer Agent**: a specialized [Agent](#agent) you use for coding, debugging and devops-as-code.

**Delta**: the difference between two values, commonly used in counter aggregations to calculate the change over time.

**DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)**: a network management protocol used to automatically assign IP addresses and other network configuration parameters.
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**Predictive maintenance**: the use of time-series data to forecast equipment failure, common in IoT and industrial applications.

**Prompt**: an input or instruction you give to an Agent. A prompt is normally text, but may be multimodal. For example, images and text.

**$PG**: an open-source object-relational database system known for its reliability, robustness, and performance.

**PostGIS**: a $PG extension that adds support for geographic objects and spatial queries.
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