Thanks, Martin, but that's not it. As I mentioned in my email, I'm running as MySQL root user with all priv bits set. I tried your suggestion anyway, but no change.
Cheers, - Brad On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad- > > log into mysql as admin > GRANT FILE ON *.* to 'username'@'HOST'; > logout > then login to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > retry FILE operation > > Martin > ______________________________________________ > Disclaimer and confidentiality note > Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official > business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender > does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. > Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this > transmission. > > > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:06 -0500 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > > Subject: Vexing permissions issue with partitioned CREATE TABLE > > > > > All - > > > > Thanks in advance for help with a sticky problem. > > > > I'm attempting to create a partitioned table thus: > > > > CREATE TABLE `my_precious_table` ( > > `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, > > `startTimeStamp` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00', > > PRIMARY KEY (`id`,`startTimeStamp`) > > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 > > PARTITION BY RANGE (year(startTimeStamp)) ( > > PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (2005) DATA DIRECTORY = '/foo/data_foo' > > INDEX DIRECTORY = '/foo/idx_foo' ENGINE = MyISAM, > > PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE DATA DIRECTORY = > > '/foo/data_foo' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/foo/idx_foo' ENGINE = MyISAM); > > > > (This query is pared way down from the original, but still suffers from > the > > same problem.) Note that there are data and index directories specified > for > > the individual partitions. This statement was originally generated by a > > MySQL instance of version 5.1.22-rc-log, and I'm attempting to run it on > > 5.1.29-rc-community. > > > > > > > > I get the following error when I attempt to create a table this way: > > > > ERROR 1 (HY000): Can't create/write to file > > '/foo/idx_foo/my_precious_table#P#p0.MYI' (Errcode: 13) > > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure it's not a filesystem-level issue, because permissions on > > the specified folders are all 777: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo]$ ls -al /foo > > total 32 > > drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:56 . > > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:55 .. > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:56 data_foo > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:56 idx_foo > > > > > > > > I'm also pretty sure it's not a MySQL grants/permissions issue, because > I'm > > operating as MySQL root with all privilege bits set. > > > > Other notes: > > - I can create the table without the DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY specified, but > I > > need to place the partitions for this very large table on a separate > disk. > > - It shouldn't make a difference with everything set to 777, but I've > tried > > setting the owner/group for the directories to root:root, mysql:mysql, > and > > myself, just to try it. No change. > > - The docs (if I have read everything correctly) indicate that specifying > > DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY per partition in the manner above is > > legit, and that attempting to specify them at the table level for a > > partitioned table is not. > > > > I've googled extensively, searched the list archives, and exhausted every > > other avenue I could think of before posting to the list, but am no > closer > > to an answer. Does anyone have any ideas? Have I missed something in the > > docs? > > > > Many thanks, > > - Brad Heintz > > > > > > -- > > Brad Heintz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > Send e-mail anywhere. No map, no compass. Get your Hotmail(R) account > now.<http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_anywhere_122008> > -- Brad Heintz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
