Re: Createdb problems

Kenneth McDowell <kmcdowel(at)netwiz(dot)net> writes:
> I am trying to create a database on a mounted volume.
> I have used initdb and created the cluster fine.
> I have set an environment variable for the PATH, and restarted postgres but
> when I go to use the createdb --location=PATH dbname
> I get the following error

> cp: /volumes/hood/postgres/base/26916: Too many levels of symbolic links
> ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: could not initialize database directory

Hm. What exactly is that PATH value, and where is your regular database
area (PGDATA)? I am suspicious of a circular-symlink kind of problem,
but there's not enough info here to understand what's wrong.

Also, which PG version are you using?

regards, tom lane