Re: [HACKERS] destroydb doesn't close connection with client (httpd <-> pg) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] destroydb doesn't close connection with client (httpd <-> pg)
Date
Msg-id 199906130054.UAA15694@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] destroydb doesn't close connection with client (httpd <-> pg)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Added to TODO.


> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > I don't know is it DBI/DBD problem or backend must close
> > all connections to DB when it destroyed.
> 
> You cannot destroy a DB while there are backends connected to it;
> all hell breaks loose if you do.  See thread "How to destroy your entire
> Postgres installation" in pg-hackers in late Sept. 1998.
> 
> The correct fix is to add an interlock that prevents "destroydb" when
> there are connected backends.  I don't know just how that might be done,
> however.
> 
> There should be a TODO item for this, but I don't see one:
>   * Prevent destroydb when there are backends active in that database
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> 


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