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From Scott Marlowe
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In response to Preventing access temporarily.  ("Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@intel.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote:
> PG V9.0.1 on Linux
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> I want to temporarily prevent users from connecting to a DB, let the
> existing connections finish, <do some work>, re-enable connections.
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> What's the best way to do that?

Edit pg_hba.conf to reject all connections and reload.  current
connections will stay connected, new ones will be refused.  use
pg_stat_activity to monitor connections til they're all gone / idle.

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