Re: pg_upgrade "configdir" vs "datadir"

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:23:28PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgupgrade.html
> Description:
>
> pg_upgrade seems to assume that the datadir and the configdir are the same
> but on Debian/Ubuntu they are not the same by default (installing from the
> postgres repository).
>
> The current documentation:
>
> -d configdir
> --old-datadir=configdir
>
> the old database cluster configuration directory; environment variable
> PGDATAOLD
>
> -D configdir
> --new-datadir=configdir
>
> the new database cluster configuration directory; environment variable
> PGDATANEW
>
> In order for this to work on Debian/Ubuntu you need to also pass some
> options with the actual configuration directory. For example:
>
> -o 'config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf'
> -O 'config_file=/etc/postgresql/10/main/postgresql.conf'
>
> I think the documentation could use some clarification on this point.

Uh, I am confused. -d and -D are supposed to specify where
postgresql.conf is. Are you saying that doesn't work. Can you show us
the file paths, and the errors you see?

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