Some more info. If I manually create the data directory first, the output is different:
C:\Tada\Workspace>mkdir data
C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This
usermust also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252.
fixing permissions on existing directory data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default
max_connections... 100 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 4000/200000 creating configuration files
...ok creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... child process was terminated by
signal5 initdb: removing contents of data directory "data"
Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I just compiled a fresh copy from CVS head. I then tried to do an initdb
> as user 'postgres' (non admin user on my system). I get the following
> error:
>
> C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgres".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United
> States.1252.
>
>
> creating directory data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory
> "data/global": Permission denied
> initdb: removing data directory "data"
> could not open directory "data": No such file or directory
> initdb: failed to remove data directory
>
> AFAICS, no data directory is ever created so the 'creating directory
> data ... ok' message is probably incorrect. I even tried to change the
> permissions on the parent directory so that user 'postgres' has full
> control. It doesn't help. I didn't think it would since I am able to
> create a database in this directory if I'm using version 8.1.4.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
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