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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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