Re: advice

Gary,

Please post instead of sending private email.

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:18:29PM +0800, garyhot wrote:
> Want to thank you for creating the Cygwin-postgresql help readme.
> Everything work fine when I use your readme to install the lastest
> postgresql 7.4.1.

You are welcome.

> However I could not exec CREATE DATABASE dbname TEMPLATE template1 if
> I run postmaster as a window service. But when I run the daemon from
> the command line, it work perfectly.

WFM:

template1=# CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE template1;
CREATE DATABASE

> Here is the debug dump from the postmaster.log file.
>
> DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>
> LOG: statement: CREATE DATABASE dummy TEMPLATE template1;
>
> DEBUG: parse tree:
>
> DETAIL: {QUERY :commandType 5 :querySource 0 :canSetTag true :utilityStmt ?
>
> :resultRelation 0 :into <> :hasAggs false :hasSubLinks false
> :rtable <>
>
> :jointree <> :rowMarks () :targetList <> :groupClause <>
> :havingQual <>
>
> :distinctClause <> :sortClause <> :limitOffset <> :limitCount <>
>
> :setOperations <> :resultRelations ()}
>
>
>
> DEBUG: rewritten parse tree:
>
> DETAIL: ({QUERY :commandType 5 :querySource 0 :canSetTag true :utilityStmt ?
>
> :resultRelation 0 :into <> :hasAggs false :hasSubLinks false
> :rtable <>
>
> :jointree <> :rowMarks () :targetList <> :groupClause <>
> :havingQual <>
>
> :distinctClause <> :sortClause <> :limitOffset <> :limitCount <>
>
> :setOperations <> :resultRelations ()})
>
>
>
> DEBUG: ProcessUtility
>
> cp: /dev/fs/C/var/postgresql/data/base/1: No such file or directory

The above path looks suspicious.

> ERROR: could not initialize database directory
>
> DETAIL: Failing system command was: cp -r '/var/postgresql/data/base/1' '/var/
> postgresql/data/base/17226'
>
> HINT: Look in the postmaster's stderr log for more information.
>
> DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction
>
> I believe the error is in the red line.

What red line? I read my email with a "color blind" mail reader.

> Thanks for your help.

Sorry, I can't be more helpful.

> There is no such path on my cygwin path.

Are you referring to "/dev/fs/C?" If so, then I believe this
(misconfiguration) is your problem.

> Where is the postmaster stderr log store btw?

The same place as stdout -- /var/log/postmaster.log.

Jason

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