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Error creating Tablespace on Windows

From
deepak
Date:
Hi,

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


If I use 'c:/windows/temp/testtablespace' for location, it works.

If I look at properties for c:/windows/temp and c:/windows/temp1, they look identical (same ownership and read/write permissions).

Any thoughts on what else to check?

This is with Postgresql 9.1.9.


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Deepak


Re: Error creating Tablespace on Windows

From
John R Pierce
Date:
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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Re: Error creating Tablespace on Windows

From
deepak
Date:
I chose temp only for illustration purposes.  Actually the regression test "tablespace" fails too,
for the same reason, when run from sources (which creates a tablespace directory under
src/test/regress)

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Deepak

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
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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Re: Error creating Tablespace on Windows

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Begin Daniel
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of deepak
Sent: November-25-15 17:07
To: John R Pierce
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Error creating Tablespace on Windows

 

I chose temp only for illustration purposes.  Actually the regression test "tablespace" fails too,

for the same reason, when run from sources (which creates a tablespace directory under

src/test/regress)


The above query used to work for me. May be you should make sure to use the appropriate owner.

CREATE TABLESPACE workspace1 OWNER postgres LOCATION 'E:\\TempFiles\\pgsqlData';

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Deepak

 

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:

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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