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. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
