How to destroy your entire Postgres installation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: How to destroy your entire Postgres installation
Date: 1998-09-25 22:18:12
Message-ID: 27205.906761892@sss.pgh.pa.us
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It's easy: just destroydb one database that has active backends
still running in it. Then stand back and watch the carnage.
(Hint: back up all your *other* databases first, because you'll
be lucky if you can still access them.)

There really, really needs to be an interlock to prevent this mistake
:-(

regards, tom lane

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