John D. Burger wrote:
> Still, I'm trying to figure out how to avoid my screw-up in the
> future.

The good old "don't do everything as root" comes to mind.

> I'm not that familiar with the permissions stuff - is there 
> any way to take away "drop DB privileges" from a user, or even all
> users?  Again, this is PG 7.4.

There is no specific "drop database" privilege, but only owners or 
superusers can drop things.  So do your general transactional 
operations as some other user.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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