Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> writes:
> Well, most recently I had created a new database using UTF8 encoding
> and I had restored data to it, that had been in a database using
> SQL_ASCII. I wanted to rename the original database. When I tried to
> rename it, I got the message that I couldn't do it because the
> database was in use. This particular database is in a 8.2.4 release.
> I'm moving to 8.3.n but I'm not there yet.
OK. Consulting the CVS history, I see that RENAME DATABASE does have
a delay in it, but only in 8.3.x.
regards, tom lane