Hello, without success I tried to set the default tablespace via the environment variable PGOPTIONS. My tries: set PGOPTIONS="default_tablespace='pgdata'" set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace='pgdata' set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace(pgdata) set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace('pgdata') When I try to connect to the server via psql I get the error message: "FATAL: invalid command-line arguments for server process. HINT: Try "postgres --help" for more information." However, when I start the server with: postgres -c default_tablespace='pgdata' it works. What am I missing? The OS is Windows xp Pro sp3. PostgreSQL version: 8.3.5. BTW: Why aren't new databases created in the 'new' tablespace? Just because it's not a dbspace but a tablespace? It would be much more convenient if the createdb commands would make use of the default_tablespace setting as it's the case with tables. Thank you very much, Peter Seifert -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin