Re: Error creating Tablespace on Windows

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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