Re: Rename a database that has connections

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I've been helping out several customers recently who all seem to be
> wrestling with the same issue: wanting to update/refresh non-production
> databases from the latest corresponding prod version. Typically they
> have (fairly complex) scripts that at some point attempt to restore a
> dump into new database and then rename the to-be-retired db out of the
> way and rename the newly restored one to take over.
>
> In many cases such scripts would be simplified if a database could be
> renamed without requiring its connections terminated. I've been asked
> several times if this could be added... so I've caved in a done a patch
> that allows this.
>
> The default behavior is unchanged - it is required to specify an
> additional trailing FORCE keyword to elicit the more brutal behavior.
> Note that existing connections to the renamed database are unaffected,
> but obviously SELECT current_database() returns the new name (in the
> next transaction).

Uh, it isn't save to copy a database when someone else is connected.
How does this address that issue?

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