Re: [v15 beta] pg_upgrade failed if earlier executed with -c switch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> Or we could revisit Tom's proposal in the thread that implemented the feature:
> to have timestamped directory names to get around this very problem?  I think
> we should be able to figure out a way to make it easy enough for the BF code to
> figure out (and clean up).

How about inserting an additional level of subdirectory?

pg_upgrade_output.d/20220603122528/foo.log

Then code doing "rm -rf pg_upgrade_output.d" needs no changes.

            regards, tom lane