On Monday 10 July 2006 15:58, adey wrote: > Can hba be manipulated in such a way to make Postgres "read only" to obtain > a complete and full backup please, and if so, how? PostgreSQL allows "complete and full backups" while in production. E.g; we support hot backups :). You do not have to stop working just to run backups (unlike another unnamed database). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > On 5/19/06, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Is that possible? I've checked the docs for 8.1, and am not finding > > > anything, nor anything in contrib ... > > > > > > the best I've been able to think of so far is to modify pg_hba.conf to > > > > not > > > > > allow new connections for the duration of the operations I need to > > > > perform > > > > > (drop and create a database) ... > > > > Not sure I understand what you need. DROP DATABASE already locks out > > new connections. > > > > regards, tom lane > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/