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.
>
> Currently I have been logging into a bunch of servers and stopping various
> daemons, then on the database server killing processes until the database is
> apparently idle then dropping the database and doing the restore. Then
> restarting the daemons etc. I am sure I am not doing this the right way so
> advice gratefully received.
I would modify pg_hba.conf to block access temporarily.
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