On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 02:03:07PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I added mkdir() before the other stuff that messes with logfiles, because it
> needs to happen before that.
> 
> Are you suggesting to change the pre-existing behavior of when logfiles are
> created, like 0002 ?

Yes, something like that.

> There's no reason not to.  We created the dir, and the user didn't specify to
> preserve it.  It'd be their fault if they put something valuable there after
> starting pg_upgrade.

This is a path for the data internal to pg_upgrade.  My take is that
the code simplifications the new option brings are more valuable than
this assumption, which I guess would unlikely happen.  I may be wrong,
of course.  By the way, while thinking about that, should we worry
about --logdir="."?
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Michael

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