Further portability hacking in pg_upgrade's test script.
I blew the dust off a Bourne shell (file date 1996, yea verily) and tried to run test.sh with it. It mostly worked, but I found that the temp-directory creation code introduced by commit be76a6d3 was not compatible, for a couple of reasons: this shell thinks "set -e" should force an exit if a command within backticks fails, and it also thinks code within braces should be executed by a sub-shell, meaning that variable settings don't propagate back up to the parent shell. In view of Victor Wagner's report that Solaris is still using pre-POSIX shells, seems like we oughta make this case work. It's not like the code is any less idiomatic this way; the prior coding technique appeared nowhere else. (There is a remaining bash-ism here, which is that $RANDOM doesn't do what the code hopes in non-bash shells. But the use of $$ elsewhere in that path should be enough to ensure uniqueness and some amount of randomness, so I think it's okay as-is.) Back-patch to all supported branches, as the previous commit was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180720153820.69e9ae6c@fafnir.local.vm
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