Hi all.
I have task to refresh a test database from a production database (with
masking) on the fly. To make masking we use pg_restore --create with three
stages restoration. And one of the problem is daemons writing concurrently in
the time of the restoration of a database. I need to block them in time of the
restoration. ALLOW_CONNECTIONS=true don't work in this case, because it blocks
a superuser too. We use CONNECTION LIMIT 0, because this blocks almost all,
except a superuser. But to prevent a race condition we must set this in the
same query as CREATE DATABASE, the postgresql syntax allow this. Now this is
rather complex procedure:
We get `pg_restore --create --list −−section=pre−data` and `pg_restore ---stage
--list −−section=pre−data`, diff them to get difference.
Get `pg_restore --create --use-list=diff −−section=pre−data` to get sql.
Edit sql: remove ALTER DATABASE ... CONNECTION LIMIT ... if exist, add
CONNECTION LIMIT 0 to the CREATE DATABASE.
Send sql to the postgresql.
And so on.
Will be convenient to add CONNECTION LIMIT 0 to the CREATE DATABASE just by
option of pg_restore.
And will be even more straight approach do not use CONNECTION LIMIT 0 is this
case, but change ALLOW_CONNECTIONS to accept values: false, true, superuser.
("Superuser" to accept connections from superuser only).
