The directory is on another (external) disk, mounted under /media. Postgres has not r+x rights on that directory (or on /) which belong to root. regards, Benoit Durand ________________________________________ De : Tom Lane [tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Date d'envoi : vendredi 15 janvier 2010 16:51 À : DURAND Benoît Cc : pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : Re: Creation of tablespaces =?iso-8859-1?Q?DURAND_Beno=EEt?= <b.durand@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I work with Ubuntu 9.10 (upgraded from 8.04 LTS yesterday) and PostgreSQL 8.3. > I can't create tablespaces. Pgsql seems to try changing access rights of the directory and fails to do it (permission denied), despite the directory is owned by the postgres user Are you sure that postgres has r+x rights on all the directories above that one? If this were a Red Hat distro I would also wonder about selinux permissions, but I don't know whether Ubuntu has selinux or enables it by default. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general