Re: error while creating database

Greetings:
I may be wrong, but you could try using the createdb / dropdb utils
from the pgsql/bin directory, or calling psql with some of the
parameters used by such tools (-c -d , etc).

Hope it helps.
Best regards

Dario

On 12/6/05, Karthik.S <skarthik(at)midascomm(dot)com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am using postgres version: 7.1.3 in Red hat linux : 7.2.
>
> I am having a script(uses psql) which drops and creates a database by
> logging
> into 'template1'. This will be invoked from crontab.
>
> Sometimes (nearly 50% of the times) the database creation fails by saying
> "ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: source database "template1" is being
> accessed by other users"
>
> But I am sure that none of my scripts access 'template1' at that time.
> I have also checked the 'ps -afx' output (logged at the time of failing),
> but no suspects found.
>
> Kindly give me a solution to overcome this problem.
> Also kindly tell me a way to find, which process is accessing the
> template1.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> regards
> KArthik.S
>
>
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