On Tuesday 29 June 2010 1:04:27 pm Geoffrey wrote: > So running the following command: > > dropdb -p 5443 swr > > I get: > > dropdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: database > "postgres" does not exist > > Why is it not 'seeing' the database name I'm passing to it? Why is it > trying to drop a database named postgres?? > > -- It needs to connect to the database cluster to run the DROP DATABASE command and is trying to use the system database postgres. Did you drop the postgres database? Does the user you are connecting as have the permissions to postgres? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
