On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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
template databases. > for that, you could achieve the result with a special entry in > pg_hba.conf to "reject" all connection attempts for that DB. Yeah, that would work. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
