> I'm having a hard time trying to create a tablespace with > Windows 2000 and PostgreSQL 8. Is there a How-To somewhere on > the Net? I only find tablespace issues with Linux. One > article even claimed it was impossible with Windows, but > since I've tried it successfully in a localhost installation > with WinXP, I know this isn't true. > > The equivalent of the "owner" of a directory in Windows seems > to be the one who created it. IOW, when I created a > tablespace with WinXP in a directory that the owner of the > postmaster service had created, it worked. In another > directory, it wouldn't work. However, somehow I can't get it > to work in a client-server environment with a Win 2000 server. > Any suggestions?
Picking this one up very late - perhaps you've already got a response. If not, here's my take: In general, it's the service account that has to have permissions. When you say client/service, do you mean you want to create a tablespace on a network drive? If so, not supported. If you mean you connect with psql (or pgadmin, or whatever) across the network and create a tablespace that's local to the server, that should work fine. If it's the second, verify that the service user has permissions on *all parent directories to the tablespace directory*. The service account wil nee dread access all the way up to the final directory, where it needs full control. Oh, and make sure all the filesystems are NTFS - tablesspaces is not supported on any other filesystems. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match