W S wrote: > Greetings, > > I was asked this question, and I wasn't sure if it is possible: > > > do you know of a way to stop just one database (not delete/drop) on > our PostgreSQL 8.1 server? One possible way: You can update its pg_database record, setting datallowconn to 'f' to disable new connections to the DB, then boot off all existing users of it by killing their backends. A discussion about this appeared here recently, and a search of the archives for `datallowconn' should find it. > And, while I know how to shut down postmaster, and/or put in rules to > pg_hba.conf to limit access to a certain database, is there any way to > freeze or stop just one database and not others? I'm attempting to > RTFM it, but so far I've had no luck. I haven't checked whether pg_hba.conf rules are reloaded, but `pg_ctl reload' can re-read some settings without a postmaster restart. So you might be able to disallow access in pg_hba then reload. I'd be curious to know if that works and if/how it affects existing connections - though I can always test it myself. -- Craig Ringer
