Re: Unable to initdb using HEAD on Windows XP

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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