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 .
BUGS
The descriptions of
.../data/PG_VERSION, .../data/base/*/PG_VERSION,
the temporary sort files, and the database debugging trace files are absent.