Re: lock a database from new connections, without modifying pg_hba.conf

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> Is that possible?  I've checked the docs for 8.1, and am not finding
> anything, nor anything in contrib ...

> the best I've been able to think of so far is to modify pg_hba.conf to not
> allow new connections for the duration of the operations I need to perform
> (drop and create a database) ...

Not sure I understand what you need.  DROP DATABASE already locks out
new connections.

            regards, tom lane