Some more info. If I manually create the data directory first, the output is
different:
C:\Tada\Workspace>mkdir data
C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United
States.1252.
fixing permissions on existing directory data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 4000/200000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... child process was terminated by signal 5
initdb: removing contents of data directory "data"
Thomas Hallgren wrote:
I just compiled a fresh copy from CVS head. I then tried to do an initdb
as user 'postgres' (non admin user on my system). I get the following
error:
C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United
States.1252.
creating directory data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory
"data/global": Permission denied
initdb: removing data directory "data"
could not open directory "data": No such file or directory
initdb: failed to remove data directory
AFAICS, no data directory is ever created so the 'creating directory
data ... ok' message is probably incorrect. I even tried to change the
permissions on the parent directory so that user 'postgres' has full
control. It doesn't help. I didn't think it would since I am able to
create a database in this directory if I'm using version 8.1.4.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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