Re: Unable to initdb using HEAD on Windows XP

Some more info. If I manually create the data directory first, the output is different:
  C:\Tada\Workspace>mkdir data
  C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data  The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".  This
usermust also own the server process.
 
  The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252.

  fixing permissions on existing directory data ... ok  creating subdirectories ... ok  selecting default
max_connections... 100  selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 4000/200000  creating configuration files
...ok  creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... ok  initializing pg_authid ... child process was terminated by
signal5  initdb: removing contents of data directory "data"
 


Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I just compiled a fresh copy from CVS head. I then tried to do an initdb 
> as user 'postgres' (non admin user on my system). I get the following 
> error:
> 
>  C:\Tada\Workspace>initdb -D data
>  The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user 
> "postgres".
>  This user must also own the server process.
> 
>  The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United 
> States.1252.
> 
> 
>  creating directory data ... ok
>  creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory 
> "data/global": Permission denied
>  initdb: removing data directory "data"
>  could not open directory "data": No such file or directory
>  initdb: failed to remove data directory
> 
> AFAICS, no data directory is ever created so the 'creating directory 
> data ... ok' message is probably incorrect. I even tried to change the 
> permissions on the parent directory so that user 'postgres' has full 
> control. It doesn't help. I didn't think it would since I am able to 
> create a database in this directory if I'm using version 8.1.4.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
> 
> 
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