From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of deepak Sent: November-25-15 17:07 To: John R Pierce Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Error creating Tablespace on Windows
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) The above query used to work for me. May be you should make sure to use the appropriate owner. CREATE TABLESPACE workspace1 OWNER postgres LOCATION 'E:\\TempFiles\\pgsqlData'; -- Deepak On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com<mailto: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<mailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org>) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
