Re: initdb failing

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Sachin Srivastava <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: initdb failing
Date: 2009-10-06 18:11:47
Message-ID: 4ACB8863.5070702@iol.ie
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On 06/10/2009 19:00, Sachin Srivastava wrote:

> fixing permissions on existing directory d:/base/netscope/pg/data ... ok
> * creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory
> "d:/base/netscope/pg": File exists
> *initdb: data directory "d:/base/netscope/pg/data" not removed at user's
> request

Could it be that the "..../data" directory isn't empty? I think initdb
will fail if this is the case.

Ray.

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