Re: Database in use?

This has happened or is happening to me again, only this time, it's a
database that I just created.  I restored another database into a test
database.  One of the tables is empty.  I want to drop the test
database and create a new one.  When I try to drop the test database,
I get this error -
template1=# drop database km_tezt;
ERROR:  database "km_tezt" is being accessed by other users

template1=# select * from pg_prepared_xacts;
  transaction | gid | prepared | owner | database
-------------+-----+----------+-------+----------
(0 rows)

This database is one that I created just a few hours ago just to test
some things myself.  There can be no one in it except me.  I
completely closed out of the database, closed out of the system, and
closed my terminal session.  Still I get the error.  This time the
database has not been accessed through PHP at all.

Carol

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> writes:
>> I'm not sure I understand.  If there is a lag time between when
>> someone exits the database and when the database "knows" that no one
>> is still in it, then that shouldn't be the problem here.  I tried a
>> number of time over the course of 24 hours to rename the database and
>> it always reported that the database was in use.  No one was logged
>> in
>> but me, but the database still reported that the database was in use.
>
> Hmph.  Are you sure nothing was connected?  One thing that frequently
> trips people up here is uncommitted prepared transactions --- look in
> pg_prepared_xacts.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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