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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database in use?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:10 -0500
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Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
>> This database is one that I created just a few hours ago just to test some
>> things myself.  There can be no one in it except me.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that enough  ((just you) to cause
> the drop database to fail?

If you try to drop the current session's database, you get a different
error message.

regression=# drop database regression;
ERROR:  cannot drop the currently open database

			regards, tom lane

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