Re: allowing connections from additional hosts without a restart?

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You could always create and configure a new data directory, then start
a new instance of the postmaster running on a different port. Use the
new instance for the other client. That would separate the user
accounts, too...

On Jan 13, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> Greetings,
> Is it possible to allow TCP/IP connections from additional hosts (IPs)
> without restarting postgresql?
>
> The issue i'm having is that i've got a postgresql-7.4.6 box that has
> a DB running on it for a j2ee based application on a separate server.
> Now i need to add an additional DB for a different server, but I can't
> afford any down time to restart postgresql for the changes in
> pg_hba.conf to take effect.
>
> Is there any workaround that doesn't require a restart?
>
> thanks!
>
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