Can u tell us what are the role privilages granted to user "joe"
May be you r missing with the create database privilage to user joe
With Regards
Ashish....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Murphy" <murphy2@speakeasy.net>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] Permission denied to create database
> Sleep deprived and surely doing something stupid here; I can't seem to
> confer the ability to create databases on a regular user. I always get
> "permission denied to create database". One note: template1 has had some
> C functions added to it. Could that be related to the problem?
>
> $ createdb -U joe joejunkdb
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create
> database
>
> $ sudo -u postgres psql -c "grant all on tablespace pg_default to joe"
> Password:
> GRANT
>
> $ createdb -U joe joejunkdb
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create
> database
>
> joe=> \db+
> List of tablespaces
> Name | Owner | Location | Access privileges
> | Description
> ------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------+-------------
> pg_default | postgres | | {postgres=C/postgres,joe=C/postgres} |
> pg_global | postgres | |
> |
>
> joe=> \l+
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding | Tablespace |
> Description -----------+----------+----------+------------+---------------------------
> ...
> template1 | postgres | UTF8 | pg_default | Default template database
>
> For some reason, I haven't succeeded by reading the docs and googling.
>
> Thanks for jarring my memory,
> Kevin Murphy
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4
>
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