Re: Big 7.1 open items

> However I do see a bit of a problem here: since DROP DATABASE is
> ordinarily executed by a backend that's running in a different database,
> how's it going to read pg_class of the target database?  Perhaps it will
> be necessary to fire up a sub-backend that runs in the target DB for
> long enough to kill all the user tables.  Looking messy...

That was my feeling.  Imagine another issue.  If you see a file, how do
you figure out what database it belong to?  You would have to cycle
through the pg_class relations for every database.  Seems such reverse
lookups would not be impossible.  Not sure if it will ever be required.

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