Re: Blocking access by remote users for a specific time period

On 12/13/2014 08:13 PM, Michael Nolan wrote:
> I have several web apps that access our Postgresql database that I'd
> like to lock out of the database for about an hour during a weekly
> maintenance interval. (There are some internal users that do not get
> locked out, because they're running the maintenance tasks.)
>
> There are no time-of-day access limitation parameters in the pg_hba.conf
> file, are there any simple ways to do this?

Use a cron job that at beginning of period swaps out the pg_hba.conf
with one that denies access, reloads server and then at end of time
period reverse procedure ?

> --
> Mike Nolan


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Adrian Klaver
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