| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Alex Avriette <a_avriette(at)acs(dot)org> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: dropdb to a remote host | 
| Date: | 2001-11-13 21:57:47 | 
| Message-ID: | 200111132157.fADLvl518252@candle.pha.pa.us | 
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> when I do:
> 
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/dropdb -h myhost -U myuser dbname
> 
> it complains that there isnt an entry in pg_hba.conf for 'template1', when i
> rather explicitly told it to drop 'dbname'. am i missing something?
You need to connect to template1 to do the dbname drop.  My guess is
that pg_database has been truncated somehow.  You can actually connect
to any database and do the command "DROP DATABASE dbname".
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