| From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading rant. |
| Date: | 2003-01-04 04:02:28 |
| Message-ID: | 1041652948.1198.15.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
> the DBA could too easily forget to do it.
I tackled this issue in the Debian upgrade scripts.
I close the running postmaster and open a new postmaster using a
different port, so that normal connection attempts will fail because
there is no postmaster running on the normal port.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver(dot)Elphick(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk
Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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