On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> There are obvious race conditions in that assumption. Why don't you >> just try the drop and see if it succeeds? >> >> regards, tom lane >> > > I don't follow - why is there a race condition? I'm driving the > commands into postgresql via the command line. User 1: select * from pg_stat_activity where datname='db123'; User 2: psql db123 User 1: drop database db123; -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general