Re: ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: could not initialize database directory

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>rows/table in existing databases. The only failure is
>for the CREATE DATABASE. This is what is the most confusing for me.
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The CREATE DATABASE needs to have the rights to do a "mkdir" in the place where $PGDATA environment variable points to, and to "cp"/configure several files after that.
Actually, all I can guess is that executing postmaster as a service, there are some _cygwin_ variables in your telnet session, that the cygrunsrv command doesn't pass to the started backend. The same user would get the same environment, but not all the time. Try a simple "bash.exe" command and a "bash.exe --login" in a cmd window, each followed by a "set" command, to see what I mean.

SLao

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