Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: aa062597c5192fdd758900eb3740a5bd935feda9
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-01-07T23:20:57Z
Releases: 9.4.6
Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.

Turns out the only reason initdb -X worked is that pg_mkdir_p won't
whine if you point it at something that's a symlink to a directory.
Otherwise, the attempt to create pg_xlog/ just like all the other
subdirectories would have failed.  Let's be a little more explicit
about what's happening.  Oversight in my patch for bug #13853
(mea culpa for not testing -X ...)

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