Re: Error creating Tablespace on Windows

From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of deepak
Sent: November-25-15 17:07
To: John R Pierce
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Error creating Tablespace on Windows

I chose temp only for illustration purposes. Actually the regression test "tablespace" fails too,
for the same reason, when run from sources (which creates a tablespace directory under
src/test/regress)

The above query used to work for me. May be you should make sure to use the appropriate owner.
CREATE TABLESPACE workspace1 OWNER postgres LOCATION 'E:\\TempFiles\\pgsqlData';
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Deepak

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com<mailto:pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>> wrote:
On 11/25/2015 12:01 PM, deepak wrote:
I am getting this permission denied error on Windows 2008 trying to create a tablespace.

template1=# create tablespace testtablespace location 'c:/windows/temp1/testtablespace';
ERROR: could not set permissions on directory "c:/windows/temp1/testtablespace": Permission denied

why are you putting database tables in the Windows directory?!? I would instead put them somewhere like

C:\Users\postgres\AppData\Local\Temp (assuming C:\Users\postgres is the %USERPROFILE% directory for the postgres service owner...)

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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