Kenneth McDowell <kmcdowel@netwiz.net> writes:
> I am trying to create a database on a mounted volume.
> I have used initdb and created the cluster fine.
> I have set an environment variable for the PATH, and restarted postgres but
> when I go to use the createdb --location=PATH dbname
> I get the following error
> cp: /volumes/hood/postgres/base/26916: Too many levels of symbolic links
> ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: could not initialize database directory
Hm. What exactly is that PATH value, and where is your regular database
area (PGDATA)? I am suspicious of a circular-symlink kind of problem,
but there's not enough info here to understand what's wrong.
Also, which PG version are you using?
regards, tom lane
