<soumik.bhattacharjee@xxxxxxx> writes: > postgres=# CREATE DATABASE symuatdb > postgres-# WITH > postgres-# OWNER = postgres > postgres-# ENCODING = 'UTF8' > postgres-# LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8' > postgres-# LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.utf8' > postgres-# TABLESPACE = sym_m_data1 > postgres-# CONNECTION LIMIT = 10; > ERROR: could not create directory "pg_tblspc/16386/PG_10_201707211/24576": No such file or directory It looks like somebody's deleted the directory your tablespace sym_m_data1 is pointing at. regards, tom lane