This is interesting. On windows, if I attempt to drop a database when I am purposefully holding a connection open to the DB, it fails immediately - ~ 100 ms. On linux, if I do the same thing, the drop database command takes upwards of 4 seconds before it gives up, and says it can't drop the DB. Is this expected? Is there some way I can control how long it will block the drop command, waiting for the DB to not be in use? Thanks, Dan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general