Someone on IRC reported that if they had run the pg_upgrade-created
delete_old_cluster.sh shell script it would have deleted their old _and_
new data directories. (Fortunately they didn't run it.)
I was confused how this could have happened, and the user explained that
their old cluster was in /u/pgsql/data, and that they wanted to switch to
a per-major-version directory naming schema, so they put the new data
directory in /u/pgsql/data/9.5. (They could have just moved the
directory while the server was down, but didn't.)
Unfortunately, there is no check for having the new cluster data
directory inside the old data directory, only a check for tablespace
directories in the old cluster. (I never anticipated someone would do
this.)
The attached patch adds the proper check. This should be backpatched to
all supported Postgres versions.
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