Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>I think the real answer is something more along the lines of
>>>"don't run two copies of pgAdmin at once".
>
>
>>He might not be. pgAdmin uses a master connection (normally to
>>template1) and one connection to each database browsed (minus the master
>>connection which is reused). However, each SQL Query window opened will
>>also open a new connection to the currently selected database, which is
>>what might have happened in this case. Of course, the easy answer is to
>>close any SQL windows in template1 as well...
>
>
> Hmm. Would it be possible to teach pgAdmin to close extra connections
> to template1 whenever it's doing CREATE DATABASE?
If those connections were guaranteed to be idle, we wouldn't need them.
They are independent windows, so we can't kill the conn.
Regards,
Andreas