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# Find The Location Of Postgres Config Files

If you can connect to your database with `psql`, then you can easily find the location of your Postgres config files. After connecting, I can ask Postgres to show me where the main config file is:

```sql
> show config_file;
                                  config_file
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /Users/jbranchaud/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-9.5/postgresql.conf
```

In the same directory as that `postgresql.conf` file are a number of other configuration files such as the `pg_hba.conf` file.

h/t Dillon Hafer