| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alex Avriette <a_avriette(at)acs(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: dropdb to a remote host |
| Date: | 2001-11-13 22:26:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200111132226.fADMQbN20544@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > ... You can actually connect
> > to any database and do the command "DROP DATABASE dbname".
>
> Any database *except* the one to be deleted. dropdb defaults to using
Yes, of course. :-)
> template1 to issue the DROP. My bet is that Alex mistakenly thought
> it'd be a good idea to forbid connections to template1.
Oh, that's probably how this happened.
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