Re: Creating a new database in pgadmin

Le 17/03/2010 13:49, Thom Brown a écrit :
> On 17 March 2010 11:40, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>
>> Le 17/03/2010 12:37, Thom Brown a écrit :
>>> On 17 March 2010 11:29, javib <javier(dot)burgos(at)ricoh(dot)es> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for replying so fast Thom. I tried the following line and it
>> didn't
>>>> work:
>>>>
>>>> CREATE TABLESPACE otraParti LOCATION '/media/Iomega HDD(F:)'
>>>>
>>>> and I'm getting the following error:
>>>> ERROR: couldn't define permissions for directory «/media/Iomega
>> HDD(F:)»:
>>>> No
>>>> such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is that directory owned by the postgres user? And does it exist at all?
>> If
>>> you're using Windows, I'm not sure you can even use tablespaces. The
>>> "/media/otherdrive" example was a full path to a destination, so it could
>> be
>>> "/mnt/drive/" or "/external" or something like that.
>>>
>>
>> You can use tablespaces on Windows. It won't be a /media/something path
>> though. It will probably be something like F:/path/to/my/directory .
>>
>>
> Ah, okay. I was just thrown by the note in the documentation which says,
> "Tablespaces are only supported on systems that support symbolic links.".
> I'm not sure that's true.
>

It's true. It basically means you cannot use tablespace on Windows NT4.
Other Windows NT (2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7) don't have this issue.

(Dave / Magnus, correct me if I say stupid things :) )

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