<title>Notation</title>

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<quote>...</quote> or <filename>/usr/local/pgsql/<filename>

<quote>...</quote> or <filename>/usr/local/pgsql/</filename>

at the front of a file name is used to represent the

path to the <Productname>Postgres</Productname> superuser's home directory.

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Examples will show commands executed from various accounts and programs.

Commands executed from the root account will be preceeded with <quote>&gt;</quote>.

Commands executed from the superuser account will be preceeded with <quote>$</quote>.

Commands executed from the <Productname>Postgres</Productname>

superuser account will be preceeded with <quote>%</quote>, while commands

executed from an unprivileged user's account will be preceeded with

<quote>$</quote>.

<acronym>SQL</acronym> commands will be preceeded with <quote>=&gt;</quote>

or will have no leading prompt.

or will have no leading prompt, depending on the context.

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