Re: Drop database / database in use question - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com> 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;