Re: shut down one database?

On May 31, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Ottavio Campana wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Ottavio Campana wrote:
>>> Bill Moran wrote:
>>>> Ottavio Campana <ottavio(at)campana(dot)vi(dot)it> wrote:
>>>>> I have postgresql running several databases. I can stop them
>>>>> all by
>>>>> stopping postgresql, but sometimes I'd like to shut down a single
>>>>> database.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I get the same effect of stopping postgresql for only one
>>>>> database?
>>>> You can tweak pg_hba.conf to disallow all access to that particular
>>>> database. Will that accomplish what you want?
>>>
>>> well, that would be only a part: I'd also like to stop all the
>>> processes
>>> related to that db. Sometimes I have some connection I'd like to
>>> close...
>>
>> set datallowconn to false in pg_database;
>
> does it shut down the already existing ones?

No, it does not kill already existing connections to the given database.

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