> 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
Yes, of course. :-)
> template1 to issue the DROP. My bet is that Alex mistakenly thought
> it'd be a good idea to forbid connections to template1.
Oh, that's probably how this happened.
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