On 30/11/2018 17:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> So we seem to be at an impasse here. By my count, three people have
> expressed support for the patch's approach of adding a socket-directory
> option, while two people seem to prefer the idea of putting pg_upgrade's
> socket under /tmp (possibly with a way to override that). That's not
> enough of a consensus to proceed with either approach, really, but
> we ought to do something because the problem is real.
>
> Given that we have a patch for this approach, and no patch has been
> offered for the /tmp approach, I'm kind of inclined to exercise
> committer's discretion and proceed with this patch. Will anybody
> be seriously annoyed if I do?
I think it's fair to proceed and leave open that someone submits a
(possibly) better patch for a different approach in the future.
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