Re: dropdb to a remote host

> when I do:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/dropdb -h myhost -U myuser dbname
>
> it complains that there isnt an entry in pg_hba.conf for 'template1', when i
> rather explicitly told it to drop 'dbname'. am i missing something?

You need to connect to template1 to do the dbname drop.  My guess is
that pg_database has been truncated somehow.  You can actually connect
to any database and do the command "DROP DATABASE dbname".


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