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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: dropdb to a remote host
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Msg-id 3895.1005690275@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: dropdb to a remote host  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> ... You can actually connect
> to any database and do the command "DROP DATABASE dbname".

Any database *except* the one to be deleted.  dropdb defaults to using
template1 to issue the DROP.  My bet is that Alex mistakenly thought
it'd be a good idea to forbid connections to template1.

            regards, tom lane

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