I wrote:
> Patrik Novotny <panovotn@redhat.com> writes:
>> thanks for you reply. You're right, and I apologise for the confusion.
>> Options I was talking about are specified via the `--old-options`
>> parameter of the pg_upgrade (ex.: --old-options '-c
>> unix_socket_directories=/run')
>> Mentioning of the environment variable came only from my own
>> confusion. I also attached the mentioned patch.
> Ah, now I see what you're on about. I agree that this is a good
> change ... and we probably should add a comment reminding people
> to keep the user options at the end, because somebody[1] broke this
> through add-at-the-end syndrome.
Actually ... now that I look more carefully, I'm not sure this change
would improve matters. You can't just reach in and select a different
socket directory behind pg_upgrade's back; if you try, the connection
attempts later are going to fail, because pg_upgrade will be telling
pg_dump to use what it thinks the socket directory is.
You might be better off back-patching the addition of the --socketdir
option (commit 2d34ad84303181111c6f0747186857ff50106267).
regards, tom lane