On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
> the DBA could too easily forget to do it.
I tackled this issue in the Debian upgrade scripts.
I close the running postmaster and open a new postmaster using a
different port, so that normal connection attempts will fail because
there is no postmaster running on the normal port.
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