Re: Blocking access by remote users for a specific time period

Yeah, a cron job to swap pg_hba.conf files is the best solution I've come
up with so far. It's not one web app, it's closer to two dozen of them, on
multiple sites.
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Mike Nolan

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:
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> On 12/13/2014 08:13 PM, Michael Nolan wrote:
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>> I have several web apps that access our Postgresql database that I'd
>> like to lock out of the database for about an hour during a weekly
>> maintenance interval. (There are some internal users that do not get
>> locked out, because they're running the maintenance tasks.)
>>
>> There are no time-of-day access limitation parameters in the pg_hba.conf
>> file, are there any simple ways to do this?
>>
>
> Use a cron job that at beginning of period swaps out the pg_hba.conf with
> one that denies access, reloads server and then at end of time period
> reverse procedure ?
>
> --
>> Mike Nolan
>>
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> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>