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"SECTION 8 *- FILES"
This section describes some of the important files used by POSTGRES.
.../ 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 .
The descriptions of .../.postgresrc, .../data/PG_VERSION, .../data/*/PG_VERSION, the temporary sort files, and the database debugging trace files are absent.