On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Richard Sickler <richard.sickler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm trying to create a tablespace using the following command copied > from pg_dumpall, > > CREATE TABLESPACE test OWNER postgres LOCATION 'd:/prodb'; > > I receive the following message > > ERROR: directory "d:/proddb" is not empty > > a \db yields > > List of tablespaces > Name | Owner | Location > ---------------------------------------------- > pg_default postgres > pg_global postgres > (2 rows) > > More background. > I had a Postgres 8.3.7 database at d:/prodb at one time. It was working fine. > I decided to blow 8.3.7 it away and install 8.4.1. (I'm running on > windows Server 2008 and I was getting shared memory errors). > > After running the 8.4.1 one step installer , I used mklink /d to make > links replacing pg_log, pg_clog, and pg_xlog in d:/proddb, to > correspondingly named folders on c:\postgres, (worked fine on 8.3.7). > I used pg_dumpall on my test system with the intent of using pgsql -f > db.out as a way to load the 8.4.1 database. > > But, I can't get pass the first step in the restore - namely the > CREATE TABLESPACE command above. A tablespace directory must be empty to create tablespace on it. Just make a subdir like d:\proddb\tbspc and create tablespace on that. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general