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</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--maintenance-db=<replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the name of the database to connect to in order to drop the
+ target database. If not specified, the <literal>postgres</literal>
+ database will be used; if that does not exist (or is the database
+ being dropped), <literal>template1</literal> will be used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>