Re: Template1 is locked when pgAdminIII is open

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Mehul Doshi-A20614 <mehul(at)motorola(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Template1 is locked when pgAdminIII is open
Date: 2005-01-31 18:04:55
Message-ID: 41FE7347.4020404@pse-consulting.de
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)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

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