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Section 8 — Files

General Information

Overview

This section describes some of the important files used by Postgres.

Notation

“.../” at the front of file names represents the path to the postgres user's home directory. Anything in square brackets (“[” and “]”) is optional. Anything in braces (“{” and “}”) can be repeated 0 or more times. Parentheses (“(” and “)”) are used to group boolean expressions. | is the boolean operator OR .