Re: Slowly making progress

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Ok, got the default database (postgres) running.
>
> Trying to create a “user” database for the application…
>
> Can anyone spot what im doing wrong here?
>
>
>
> createdb -e -D /pgsql/DEV -E UTF8 -l en_US.UTF-8 -O postgres DEV
>
> CREATE DATABASE "DEV" OWNER postgres TABLESPACE "/pgsql/DEV" ENCODING
> 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';
>
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: tablespace "/pgsql/DEV" does
> not exist
>
>
The TABLESPACE clause wants the name of an existing tablespace - not a
non-existence path. Tablespaces are objects in their own right.

​https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-createtablespace.html

​https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-createdatabase.html
​
David J.