Re: Postmaster.pid - what do the various lines stand for? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Postmaster.pid - what do the various lines stand for?
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In response to Postmaster.pid - what do the various lines stand for?  (Paul Linehan <linehanp@tcd.ie>)
Responses Re: Postmaster.pid - what do the various lines stand for?  (Paul Linehan <linehanp@tcd.ie>)
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On Monday, May 4, 2015, Paul Linehan <linehanp@tcd.ie> wrote:
what does the bit of the path inst/./data - I'm unclear as to what the . (dot)
in the middle of that path means.

. (Dot) means the same directory - self-referencing
.. (Dot dot) means the parent directory

Inst/./data == inst/data
Inst/data/.. == inst
 
/tmp - the PostgreSQL temp (sorting) directory?

I think it is the location where the Unix socket is created.  I think temporary files are created somewhere in the data directory.

David J.
 

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