Re: dropdb to a remote host

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
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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