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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com
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Subject: Re: DB Creations/ Drop DB :: Not working...
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<soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com> writes:
> postgres=3D# CREATE DATABASE symuatdb
> postgres-#     WITH
> postgres-#     OWNER =3D postgres
> postgres-#     ENCODING =3D 'UTF8'
> postgres-#     LC_COLLATE =3D 'en_US.utf8'
> postgres-#     LC_CTYPE =3D 'en_US.utf8'
> postgres-#     TABLESPACE =3D sym_m_data1
> postgres-#     CONNECTION LIMIT =3D 10;
> ERROR:  could not create directory "pg_tblspc/16386/PG_10_201707211/2457=
6": No such file or directory

It looks like somebody's deleted the directory your tablespace sym_m_data1
is pointing at.

			regards, tom lane