pg_upgrade "configdir" vs "datadir"

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:23:28PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgupgrade.html
Description:

pg_upgrade seems to assume that the datadir and the configdir are the same
but on Debian/Ubuntu they are not the same by default (installing from the
postgres repository).

The current documentation:

-d configdir
--old-datadir=configdir

the old database cluster configuration directory; environment variable
PGDATAOLD

-D configdir
--new-datadir=configdir

the new database cluster configuration directory; environment variable
PGDATANEW

In order for this to work on Debian/Ubuntu you need to also pass some
options with the actual configuration directory. For example:

-o 'config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf'
-O 'config_file=/etc/postgresql/10/main/postgresql.conf'

I think the documentation could use some clarification on this point.

Uh, I am confused. -d and -D are supposed to specify where
postgresql.conf is. Are you saying that doesn't work. Can you show us
the file paths, and the errors you see?

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