On 09/10/2018 15:09, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Having hit the maximum socketdir length error a number of times in pg_upgrade,
> especially when running tests in a deep directory hierarchy, I figured it was
> time to see if anyone else has had the same problem? The attached patch is
> what I run with locally to avoid the issue, it adds a --socketdir=PATH option
> to pg_upgrade which overrides the default use of CWD. Is that something that
> could be considered?
Why not always create a temporary directory and put it there. Then we
don't need an option. It's not like the current directory is a
particularly good choice anyway.
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