Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
>>> Is there a particular reason we don't have an ALTER DATABASE switch
>>> that controls the datallowconn, or is it just something "missed out"?
>> It was never intended to be a user-accessible switch, just something to
>> protect template0.
> It can be rather useful for others as well, though - since it works as
> a defense against superusers doing the wrong thing..
I'm having a hard time seeing the use-case for a user-created database
that nobody at all can connect to. Even if there is some marginal use
for that, you could achieve the result with a special entry in
pg_hba.conf to "reject" all connection attempts for that DB.
regards, tom lane
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