Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail From: "Laurenz Albe" Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql References: <1314003094.239215@proxy.dienste.wien.at> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 9.0 in Ubuntu Linux Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:59:19 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 Organization: MagistratWien newsserver Message-Id: <1314025180.169661@proxy.dienste.wien.at> X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.203.254.23 X-Trace: 1314025181 aconews.univie.ac.at 10580 141.203.254.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@univie.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.postgresql:214 gargoyle60 wrote: >> Become user postgres > Thanks, I eventually realised that I had to login/become user postgres to successfully chmod, being > root wasn't enough. I don't understand. Running this chmod command will not fix your problem. If CREATE TABLESPACE fails with the error you report, then the command should also fail on the command line. This should help you find out what is wrong. Yours, Laurenz Albe