Creating a tablespace in postgresql

Question

I\'m trying to create a tablespace in postgres, but I\'m getting ownership problems. The command I\'m using is:

CREATE TABLESPACE magdat OWNER maggie LOCATION \'         


        

Answer 1

I would hazard a guess that the problem lies in the permissions of the parent directory "/home/john". Your home directory is probably setup so that only your user has access (i.e chmod 700) to it (it's a good thing for your home directory to be chmod 700, don't change it).

Doing something like:

mkdir /BSTablespace
chown postgres:postgres /BSTablespace

and then

CREATE TABLESPACE magdat OWNER maggie LOCATION '/BSTablespace';

should work fine.

Regarding the user maggie: database users are not the same as OS users. That isn't to say that you couldn't have a user in both places named maggie-- but you would need to create the user in both the database and the OS for that to happen.