Re: initdb failing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: initdb failing
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Msg-id 4ACB8863.5070702@iol.ie
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In response to initdb failing  (Sachin Srivastava <sachin.srivastava@enterprisedb.com>)
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On 06/10/2009 19:00, Sachin Srivastava wrote:

> fixing permissions on existing directory d:/base/netscope/pg/data ... ok
> * creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory
> "d:/base/netscope/pg": File exists
> *initdb: data directory "d:/base/netscope/pg/data" not removed at user's
> request

Could it be that the "..../data" directory isn't empty? I think initdb
will fail if this is the case.

Ray.

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