Re: Permission denied to create database

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Kevin Murphy <murphy2(at)speakeasy(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Permission denied to create database
Date: 2007-05-04 13:15:01
Message-ID: 463B31D5.8040308@archonet.com
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Kevin Murphy wrote:
> Sleep deprived and surely doing something stupid here; I can't seem to
> confer the ability to create databases on a regular user. I always get
> "permission denied to create database". One note: template1 has had
> some C functions added to it. Could that be related to the problem?
>
> $ createdb -U joe joejunkdb
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create
> database
>
> $ sudo -u postgres psql -c "grant all on tablespace pg_default to joe"
> Password:
> GRANT
>
> $ createdb -U joe joejunkdb
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create
> database

As a superuser: ALTER USER joe CREATEDB

Then go get some sleep :-)

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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