Re: Slowly making progress

Was the lack of knowledge do to a failure to read or a failure to
understand chapter 22 in the docs? It's been a while since I've read it
but it covers all of this material seemingly quite well.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/managing-databases.html

David J.

On Friday, February 23, 2018, Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Thanks, got it working now. As I am a newbie, I didn’t know about the
> tablespace requirement.
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> You guys are very helpful. Thanks
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> *From:* David G. Johnston [mailto:david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2018 10:06 AM
> *To:* Ron Watkins
> *Cc:* pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* Re: Slowly making progress
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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Ok, got the default database (postgres) running.
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> Trying to create a “user” database for the application…
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> Can anyone spot what im doing wrong here?
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> createdb -e -D /pgsql/DEV -E UTF8 -l en_US.UTF-8 -O postgres DEV
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> CREATE DATABASE "DEV" OWNER postgres TABLESPACE "/pgsql/DEV" ENCODING
> 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';
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> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: tablespace "/pgsql/DEV" does
> not exist
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> The TABLESPACE clause wants the name of an existing tablespace - not a
> non-existence path. Tablespaces are objects in their own right.
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> ​https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-createtablespace.html
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> ​https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-createdatabase.html
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> David J.
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