I chose temp only for illustration purposes. Actually the regression test "tablespace" fails too, for the same reason, when run from sources (which creates a tablespace directory under src/test/regress)
-- Deepak On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 11/25/2015 12:01 PM, deepak wrote: > >> I am getting this permission denied error on Windows 2008 trying to >> create a tablespace. >> >> template1=# create tablespace testtablespace location >> 'c:/windows/temp1/testtablespace'; >> ERROR: could not set permissions on directory >> "c:/windows/temp1/testtablespace": Permission denied >> > > > why are you putting database tables in the Windows directory?!? I would > instead put them somewhere like > > C:\Users\postgres\AppData\Local\Temp (assuming C:\Users\postgres is the > %USERPROFILE% directory for the postgres service owner...) > > > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
