Carol Walter <walterc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Periodically, my databases will give me a message that says that > someone is using the database when it appears that no one is. What > causes this? What can I do about it? What's the context exactly? In some cases you can get this type of message because of the fact that it takes finite time for an existing backend to exit. For instance in psql -c "some command" somedb dropdb somedb there's a nonzero probability that the backend launched for the psql session will still exist when the dropdb runs. Recent PG versions have a hack in DROP DATABASE to wait a little bit to see if conflicting backends will exit; but maybe you're running a version that hasn't got that patch, or maybe you're doing something else. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
