Re: SQL access to database attributes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: SQL access to database attributes
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Msg-id CAJKUy5gsb4PU14A0eY-80Edxra00YAV=0BPmy7w1VnZaG8UiwQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: SQL access to database attributes  (Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com>)
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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2014 12:03 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com> wrote:
>>> It was suggested to me that these options should either error out if
>>> there are existing connections or terminate said connections.  I don't
>>> agree with that because there is no harm in connecting to a template
>>> database (how else do you modify it?), and adding a reject rule in
>>> pg_hba.conf doesn't disconnect existing users so why should turning off
>>> ALLOW CONNECTIONS do it?
>>>
>> Which lead us to the question: you need to connect to the database to
>> modify it, don't you? then, how do you change ALLOW CONNECTIONS to
>> true?
>
> You can ALTER DATABASE from anywhere.
>

ah! doh! right!
don't know why i was convinced you need to connect to the database to
execute ALTER DATABASE

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