Re: cannot drop a tablespace which never exists in pg_tablespace

I found the culprit env variable was defined as PG_DATA inlieu of PGDATA
cleared and dropped itand restarted dband created once again tablespace in the desired location and it worked
Thank YouRegards
On Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:50:20 AM EST, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:

On 12/20/24 08:09, Bharani SV-forum wrote:
> Adrian
> Inline image
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> initially i had created tblspace outside pg_data env variable

Did you run CREATE TABLESPACE as shown below?:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtablespace.html

Did you ever use the tablespace?

> e.g PG_DATA env variable is defined to /XXX/YYYY/ABC/15/data
>
> the tablespace was created under  /XXX/YYYY/ABC/15/tblspace/<<tbl_spcname>>/
> assume tablespace name is abc_data
>
> *cd /XXX/YYYY/ABC/15/tblspace/abc_data/*
> ls -atl
> drwxr-x---. 2 postgres postgres  6 Dec 19 22:08 PG_15_202209061
>
> ls -altR
> drwxr-x---. 2 postgres postgres  6 Dec 19 22:08 PG_15_202209061
>
> i reconfirmed
> SELECT * FROM pg_tablespace ;
>   oid  |  spcname   | spcowner | spcacl | spcoptions
> ------+------------+----------+--------+------------
>   1663 | pg_default |       10 |        |
>   1664 | pg_global  |       10 |        |
>
> not having any entry about tablespace abc_data
>
> Can you guide
>

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Adrian Klaver
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