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.