<soumik(dot)bhattacharjee(at)kpn(dot)com> writes:
> postgres=# CREATE DATABASE symuatdb
> postgres-# WITH
> postgres-# OWNER = postgres
> postgres-# ENCODING = 'UTF8'
> postgres-# LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8'
> postgres-# LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.utf8'
> postgres-# TABLESPACE = sym_m_data1
> postgres-# CONNECTION LIMIT = 10;
> ERROR: could not create directory "pg_tblspc/16386/PG_10_201707211/24576": No such file or directory
It looks like somebody's deleted the directory your tablespace sym_m_data1
is pointing at.
regards, tom lane