On 12/11/2018 20:00, Tom Lane wrote: > Also, even if we had an arguably-better idea, I suspect that there would > always be cases where it didn't work. For example, one idea is to make > a temporary directory under the installation's normal socket directory > (thus, /tmp/pgXXXX/ or some such). But, if the normal socket directory > is not /tmp, we might find that pg_upgrade can't write there.
We do exactly that in pg_regress and it's never been a problem. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
