Re: a question about oddities in the data directory - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adam Tauno Williams
Subject Re: a question about oddities in the data directory
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In response to a question about oddities in the data directory  (Martin Mueller <martinmueller@northwestern.edu>)
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On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 15:19 +0000, Martin Mueller wrote:
>  Apologies if I asked this question before.
> Is this normal behavior? 

Yes.

>  Where in the postgres documentation do I read up on this? 

Start here - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/admin.html

> string functions and regular expressions, but it’s harder to look
> under the hood.

I would strongly recommend staying out from under the hood.  PostgreSQL
has really great tools from visualizing what is going on in the
database(s);  use the tools.

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