On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Phillip R. aka Qbert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2004 16:49 schrieb Phillip R. aka Qbert:
> >...
> > I figured it's a user problem, so I thought it might be a good idea
> > to drop my test-db elefant-data, and try to create a new one, this
> > time making shure it'd be with the user it was intendend for -
> > phillip.
> >
> > It was then that I found out that I couldn't either create a new or
> > drop an existing database, no matter which user was logged in via
> > psql.
>
> I found out the following:
> It's not possible to delete a database when logged on to the database
> server via psql.
>
> Shouldn't this be documented somewhere?
7.4s interactive docs for DROP DATABASE has a statement in the
description, "Also, it cannot be executed while you or anyone else are
connected to the target database."