Re: SQL Sessions and the DROP DATABASE command

Well, you could do it within java, but not through the jdbc interface.

ie execute a c/shell/whatever program which does it.

Dave

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:39, Carl Olivier wrote:
> Hey.
>
> Thanks for the reply, although not what I wanted to hear ;)
>
> damn!
>
> so you mean that I cannot do this except on the actual machine or via a
> shell script with sufficient permissions?!?!
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Cramer [mailto:Dave@micro-automation.net]
> Sent: 06 March 2003 03:34 PM
> To: carl@zero-one.co.za
> Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] SQL Sessions and the DROP DATABASE command
>
>
> Carl,
>
> This is not possible through the jdbc interface.
>
> Dave
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 04:25, Carl Olivier wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I need to be able to call the DROP DATABASE database command via JDBC.
> >
> > Unfortunately I need to kill off any active connections to the
> > specified database before the DROP DATABASE command will work.
> >
> > Is there anyway from within a JDBC connection to say the template1
> > database as the superuser on a POSTGRESQL server to:
> >
> > 1.  Determine what connections are open and active to a specified
> > database
> > 2.  Kill ALL these sessions.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Carl Olivier
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> Dave Cramer <Dave@micro-automation.net>
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