Re: [HACKERS] destroydb doesn't close connection with client (httpd <-> pg)

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> >> You cannot destroy a DB while there are backends connected to it;
> >> all hell breaks loose if you do. See thread "How to destroy your entire
> >> Postgres installation" in pg-hackers in late Sept. 1998.
>
> > I did it without any problem :-)
>
> You were lucky. I suffered severe database corruption in *other*
> databases when I did it by accident last year.

Destroydb is reworked in 6.5 because it flushes all its buffers. I
specifically fixed something like this.

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