---
name: "files"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "postgres95"
version: "1.09-1"
release: "Debian 1.3 (Bo)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/files/5"
---

# files(5)

## 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.