| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Dan Armbrust" <daniel(dot)armbrust(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Drop database / database in use question |
| Date: | 2008-10-17 14:30:13 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10810170730t54cbae2ej45b10a21e9e683a2@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel(dot)armbrust(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> But there is no user2. I _know_ I am the only user of this database.
>
> So how can User 1 create a race condition by himself?
>
> Or is this something PostgreSQL is doing internally (like vacuum) ?
>
> Do I really just have to keep trying the DROP command N times in a
> row, until it decides it wants to work? That really doesn't seem
> right.
Could be autovac. Easiest way is to use psql -c to get a list of pids
that are connected and kill the backends (just kill, not kill -9) then
try to drop it again. loop through that every few seconds and it
should work.
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