Re: Restoring a database problem

On 2020-09-30 20:11:12 -0500, Ron wrote:
> On 9/30/20 7:11 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct  1, 2020 at 01:00:21PM +1300, Glen Eustace wrote:
> > > I have had to do this so rarely and it has almost always been in a bit of a
> > > panic so may well be missing something really obvious.
> > >
> > > What I want to know is how to quiese a database to that I can restore it.
> > >
> > > I need to close all existing connections and the prevent people/processes from
> > > connecting again until the restore has completed.
[...]
> > I would modify pg_hba.conf to block access temporarily.
>
> As would I; it's the first thing I thought of...

Interesting. The first thing I thought of was "iptables"[1]. Probably shows
that I'm a Linux guy first and a database guy second.

        hp

[1] Yes, I know that this doesn't affect connections through Unix
    sockets.

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