RE: Question about databases in alternate locations...

I think what you need to do is:

$ initlocation $P
               ^

$ createdb indybook -D $P
                       ^

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard J Kuhns [mailto:rjk@grauel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:26 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Question about databases in alternate locations...


Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'm sure I'm just
overlooking something, but what?

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moran:/acct$ id
uid=1007(postgres) gid=1003(postgres) groups=1003(postgres)
moran:/acct$ export P=/acct/pindybook
moran:/acct$ initlocation P
The location will be initialized with username "postgres".
This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.

Fixing permissions on pre-existing directory /acct/pindybook
Creating directory /acct/pindybook/base

initlocation is complete.
You can now create a database using
  CREATE DATABASE <name> WITH LOCATION = 'P'
in SQL, or
  createdb <name> -D 'P'
from the shell.

moran:/acct$ createdb indybook -D 'P'
ERROR:  The database path 'P' is invalid. This may be due to a character
that is not allowed or because the chosen path isn't permitted for databases
createdb: database creation failed
moran:/acct$ ls -ld pindybook
drwx------  3 postgres  postgres  512 May 16 09:40 pindybook
moran:/acct$ ls -l pindybook
total 1
drwx------  2 postgres  postgres  512 May 16 09:40 base
moran:/acct$

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Thanks...

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