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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Sachin Srivastava <sachin.srivastava@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/06/2009 11:41 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
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.
 
its empty or i say its newly created.

  Because you're using the -n flag, after you run initdb once, the directory is left there.  Delete the 'data' directory and try again.

--Scott


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