On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Sachin Srivastava < sachin.srivast...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/2009 11:41 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > >> On 06/10/2009 19:00, Sachin Srivastava wrote: >> >> >> >>> fixing permissions on existing directory d:/base/netscope/pg/data ... ok >>> * creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory >>> "d:/base/netscope/pg": File exists >>> *initdb: data directory "d:/base/netscope/pg/data" not removed at user's >>> request >>> >>> >> Could it be that the "..../data" directory isn't empty? I think initdb >> will fail if this is the case. >> >> > its empty or i say its newly created. Because you're using the -n flag, after you run initdb once, the directory is left there. Delete the 'data' directory and try again. --Scott
