Re: lock a database from new connections, without modifying pg_hba.conf

Can hba be manipulated in such a way to make Postgres "read only" to obtain
a complete and full backup please, and if so, how?

On 5/19/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > Is that possible? I've checked the docs for 8.1, and am not finding
> > anything, nor anything in contrib ...
>
> > the best I've been able to think of so far is to modify pg_hba.conf to
> not
> > allow new connections for the duration of the operations I need to
> perform
> > (drop and create a database) ...
>
> Not sure I understand what you need. DROP DATABASE already locks out
> new connections.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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