Re: Creating a new database in pgadmin - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Creating a new database in pgadmin
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In response to Re: Creating a new database in pgadmin  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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On 17 March 2010 11:40, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
Le 17/03/2010 12:37, Thom Brown a écrit :
> On 17 March 2010 11:29, javib <javier.burgos@ricoh.es> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for replying so fast Thom. I tried the following line and it didn't
>> work:
>>
>> CREATE TABLESPACE otraParti LOCATION '/media/Iomega HDD(F:)'
>>
>> and I'm getting the following error:
>> ERROR: couldn't define permissions for directory «/media/Iomega HDD(F:)»:
>> No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> Is that directory owned by the postgres user?  And does it exist at all?  If
> you're using Windows, I'm not sure you can even use tablespaces.  The
> "/media/otherdrive" example was a full path to a destination, so it could be
> "/mnt/drive/" or "/external" or something like that.
>

You can use tablespaces on Windows. It won't be a /media/something path
though. It will probably be something like F:/path/to/my/directory .


Ah, okay.  I was just thrown by the note in the documentation which says, "Tablespaces are only supported on systems that support symbolic links.".  I'm not sure that's true.

Thom

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