Re: ALTER DATABASE and datallowconn - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER DATABASE and datallowconn
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Msg-id 22418.1336054433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ALTER DATABASE and datallowconn  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: ALTER DATABASE and datallowconn
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Is there a particular reason we don't have an ALTER DATABASE switch
> that controls the datallowconn, or is it just something "missed out"?

It was never intended to be a user-accessible switch, just something to
protect template0.

I don't agree with Simon's proposal to hard-wire protection for
template0 instead; that's ugly, and sometimes you do need to be able to
turn it off.  But that's something that should be done only with adult
supervision, so having a nice friendly ALTER DATABASE command for it
seems exactly the wrong thing.
        regards, tom lane


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