Re: Support custom socket directory in pg_upgrade

On 2018-Nov-12, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 12/11/2018 20:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Also, even if we had an arguably-better idea, I suspect that there would
> >> always be cases where it didn't work. For example, one idea is to make
> >> a temporary directory under the installation's normal socket directory
> >> (thus, /tmp/pgXXXX/ or some such). But, if the normal socket directory
> >> is not /tmp, we might find that pg_upgrade can't write there.
>
> > We do exactly that in pg_regress and it's never been a problem.
>
> Yeah, but pg_upgrade is used by a much wider variety of people
> than pg_regress.

Surely they can just set TMPDIR if /tmp is not writable? If TMPDIR is
set and not writable, bark at the user for it.

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