Re: [GENERAL] Error: could not read symbolic link "pg_tblspc/940585". No such file or directory

2015-02-05 Thread Igor Neyman 


From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org 
[mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Drolet
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 8:29 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Error: could not read symbolic link "pg_tblspc/940585". No 
such file or directory

Dear list users,
I moved a database from a tablespace I had created to pg_default using:
ALTER DATABASE mydatabase SET TABLESPACE pg_default;
After the database was fully copied to a new directory under PGDATA/base, I 
deleted the symbolic link to the old tablespace using (in Windows) rmdir 
PGDATA/pg_tblspc/940585. I chose to delete this now useless symlink because of 
an error when running pg_basebackup (something about a non-empty directory 
under the symlink).
Now, when I start pgAdmin and connect to my cluster, I get the following pop-up 
message (free translation from French):
An error has occurred:

ERROR: could not read symbolic link "pg_tblspc/940585": No such file or 
directory.
If I click OK on the pop-up, the connection is made and everything looks good 
(i.e. I can access my databases, tables, etc.). My question is: where do I have 
to look to delete a reference to this obsolete symbolic link/tablespace in 
pgAdmin or PGSQL?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Guillaume

You probably, still have your tablespace that you created, which now using 
non-existing symbolic link.
Before deleting windows symbolic link, you should have dropped tablespace you 
created.  Try dropping it now.
Regards,
Igor Neyman

[GENERAL] Error: could not read symbolic link "pg_tblspc/940585". No such file or directory

2015-02-05 Thread Guillaume Drolet 
Dear list users,

I moved a database from a tablespace I had created to pg_default using:

ALTER DATABASE mydatabase SET TABLESPACE pg_default;

After the database was fully copied to a new directory under PGDATA/base, I
deleted the symbolic link to the old tablespace using (in Windows) rmdir
PGDATA/pg_tblspc/940585. I chose to delete this now useless symlink because
of an error when running pg_basebackup (something about a non-empty
directory under the symlink).

Now, when I start pgAdmin and connect to my cluster, I get the following
pop-up message (free translation from French):

An error has occurred:

ERROR: could not read symbolic link "pg_tblspc/940585": No such file or
directory.

If I click OK on the pop-up, the connection is made and everything looks
good (i.e. I can access my databases, tables, etc.). My question is: where
do I have to look to delete a reference to this obsolete symbolic
link/tablespace in pgAdmin or PGSQL?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Guillaume