Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> ... Or maybe the
> postmaster needs to check the length somehow before it calls
> StreamServerPort() so we can give a saner error message.
Hm. That's ugly, but a lot less invasive than trying to get the
official API to pass the information through. Sounds like a plan to me.
However, that's only addressing the reporting end of it; I think we
also need to change the pg_upgrade test script as suggested by Noah.
regards, tom lane